Thursday, June 21, 2007

New titles from St. Augustine's Press

that are of interest to me...

A reprint of the Tractatus de Signis, by John Poinsot -- Latin text plus English translation by John Deely. This is the corrected second edition; the first edition, published by UC Press, has been out of print for a while.

624 pages, jacketed clothbound, $85
publication date: November 2007
ISBN: 978-1-58731-877-1

And two titles published in association with Thomas International:

Virtue's End: God in the Moral Philosophy of Aristotle and Aquinas
ed. Fulvio Di Blasi, Joshua P. Hochschild, Jeffrey Langan; preface by Ralph McInerny
208 pages, paperbound, $19.00
ISBN: 978-1-58731-901-3
publication date: October 2007

Ethics Without God?
ed. Fulvio Di Blasi, Joshua P. Hochschild, Jeffrey Langan; preface by Ralph McInerny
196 pages, paperbound, $19.00
ISBN: 978-1-58731-225-0
publication date: October 2007

From the Fall 2007 catalog:
Virtue's End collects nine substantial essays on the nature and relationship of theological commitment to moral theory, practical reason, and the metaphysical framework of Aristotelian ethics. Among the questions explored: What does it mean to know the good? What is the source of moral law? What role does God, or the notion of God, play in practical reasoning and human action? What is the relationship between Aquinas's ethics and Aristotle's? How is friendship with God possible? The contributors include: Kevin Flannery, Christopher Kaczor, Antonio Donato, Anthony J. Lisska, Fulvio di Blasi, Giacomo Samek Lodovici, Robert A. Gahl, Marie I. George, Daniel McInerny.

Ethics Without God? brings the theological perspective of the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions to bear on a variety of current political and theoretical questions. The main essays explore a place for the role of God in recent academic philosophy and political theory. The volume also explores a place for the role of God in recent academic philosophy and political theory. The volume also explores the implications of two recent books, each a major scholarly venture in theologically realist ethical reflection: a defense of Platonism in John Rist's Real Ethics and a natural law jurisprudence in Russell Hittinger's The First Grace. With lengthy essays prompted by these books--four essays each, by prominent theologians, moral philosophers, and political scientists--and with extended responses from Rist and Hittinger, the result is a volume that engages ultimate questions across academic disciplines and intellectual traditions.

None of these titles are listed yet at the website. St. Augustihe's Press has been trying to catch up with its publishing schedule for a while, so we'll see if these books are published not too long after the tentative publication date.

I think I'll hold off ordering them until I see Mr. Fingerhut at the next Center for Ethics and Culture conference, if I am able to attend.

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