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Allen, Jeffrey A.

 
9781532688768: Conversion Works
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ISBN 10: 1532688768 ISBN 13: 9781532688768
Editorial: Cascade Books, 2021

Sinopsis

In this book, conversion means abandoning a world view and starting over. Using this definition of conversion, the book examines four works: Augustine of Hippo’s Confessions, René Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy, Bernard Lonergan’s Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, and Peter Weir’s The Truman Show. The main argument of this book is that all four works contain and induce conversion. That is, all four works feature an individual who abandons a worldview and starts over, and all four works exhort their engager to do the same. This book also explores the works’ requirement of cognitive imitation, wherein a person replicates the mental activities of the individual who has a conversion in the work, and of private engagement, wherein a person reads or views the work while alone. The book concludes with an argument for the educational value of the four works that appropriates Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death.

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Acerca del autor

Jeffrey A. Allen holds a PhD in Theology. His writing has also appeared in Method: Journal of Lonergan Studies, The Heythrop Journal, and Philosophy & Theology.

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Editorial
Cascade Books
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1532688768
ISBN 13 
9781532688768
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
126
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