A twenty-volume edition of the Collected Writings of Jacques Maritain in English is in progress under the direction of the Center and published by the University of Notre Dame Press. John O’Callaghan and Bernard Doering make up the editorial board of the series, with Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., acting as honorary editor-in-chief.
Maritain argues that there are different ‘kinds’ and ‘orders’ of knowledge and, within them, different ‘degrees’ determined by the nature of the thing to be known and the ‘degree of abstraction’...
With this volume of the Collected Works of Jacques Maritain, the University of Notre Dame Press published the first English edition of a remarkable group of essays that Maritain had prepared for publication...
The three books presented in this volume, Integral Humanism, Freedom in the Modern World, and A Letter on Independence, were all written in the early 1930s, a time of dire trouble for France. France...
Soon after his conversion, Jacques Maritain immersed himself in the thought of Thomas Aquinas and was struck by the comparative weaknesses of Bergson. This book is Maritain’s relentless criticism of the philosophy of the man whose lectures had meant so much to him.
