• Introduces students this great philosopher of the middle ages in one short book.
  
• Brings together alternative approaches to Aquinas' thought.
  
• Uses key texts to describe the trajectory of Aquinas' philosophy and the legacy it left behind.
  
• This is the first title in a new Polity series, Classic Thinkers.

The Writings of Charles De Koninck, Volume 1, introduces a projected three-volume series that presents the first English edition of the collected works of the Catholic Thomist philosopher Charles De Koninck (1906-1965). Ralph McInerny is the project editor and has prepared the excellent translations.

Volume 2 of "The Writings of Charles De Koninck"is part of the three-volume series presenting the first English edition of the collected works of the Catholic Thomist philosopher Charles De Koninck (1906 1965). Ralph McInerny is the project editor and has prepared the excellent translations.The second volume begins with two works published in 1943: "Ego Sapientia: The Wisdom That Is Mary," De Koninck's first study in Mariology, and "The Primacy of the Common Good Against the Personalists" (with "The Principle of the New Order"), which generated a strong critical reaction. Included in this...

Dante and the Blessed Virgin is distinguished philosopher Ralph McInerny's eloquent reading of one of western literature's most famous works by a Catholic writer. The book provides Catholic readers new to Dante's The Divine Comedy (or Commedia) with a concise companion volume. McInerny argues that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the key to Dante. She is behind the scenes at the very beginning of the Commedia, and she is found at the end in the magnificent closing cantos of the Paradiso. McInerny also discusses Dante's Vita Nuova, where Mary is...

"Here is a memoir that is more than a chronicle of a full life lived within a Catholic intellectual milieu. With unique literary skills and the wisdom of seventy-five years, McInerny enlivens and interprets the major intellectual events of his time, delving into the past to understand the present. The result is the kind of book that future historians of culture will regard as a primary source. Modest and unassuming, McInerny fails to do justice to his own role in the intellectual life of the Church, a role as important as that of Chesterton and Belloc in a previous generation." --Jude...

The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain is distinguished philosopher Ralph McInerny s hymn of praise to the spiritual and intellectual life of the great Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain (1881 1973). The structure of this work is modeled on the medieval book of hours, making use of the daily offices, from Matins through Compline, to examine each stage of the life of Maritain and his wife, Raissa. Through this unique blending of biography and meditation, McInerny creates a powerful portrait of the Maritains, one that reveals a model of the intellectual life as lived by...