A fresh and provocative look at one of the twentieth century’s greatest religious thinkers. The book presents French philosopher Paul Ricœur’s unique insights on the finite human quest for ultimate reality. Ricœur pushes philosophy to its limits, always aware of the finitude of human reasoning, yet hopeful that something meaningful can be said about the...
In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — A Bent but Beautiful World: Literature, Art, and the Environment — we delve into the topical area of our environment. In recent years, we have rightly heard much about the world’s environmental problems, dangers, and disasters. However, in this series, we will invite speakers to...
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) challenged the world to become more Christian, and challenged Christians to live up to their beliefs. The Catholic Worker movement, which she co-founded and continually inspired, put her many powerful and thoughtful words into action. In this term’s reading group, we will be looking at some of those words and actions, focussing...
This event is part of the ongoing event series Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues. These events are sponsored by the Free Speech Project (Georgetown University), the Las Casas Institute and Campion Hall, hosted by Georgetown University on Zoom. As populism and political turmoil continue to rise throughout the world, and especially in western...
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) challenged the world to become more Christian, and challenged Christians to live up to their beliefs. The Catholic Worker movement, which she co-founded and continually inspired, put her many powerful and thoughtful words into action. In this term’s reading group, we will be looking at some of those words and actions, focussing...
Nuns walking past an IRA grafitti An in-person talk by Drs Dianne Kirby and Briege Rafferty. Dianne Kirby and Briege Rafferty will relate how and why they brought together religious women peace-builders in a series of oral history witness seminars to discuss their experiences of the Northern Ireland conflict. The project began in 2015. It...
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) challenged the world to become more Christian, and challenged Christians to live up to their beliefs. The Catholic Worker movement, which she co-founded and continually inspired, put her many powerful and thoughtful words into action. In this term’s reading group, we will be looking at some of those words and actions, focussing...
In a new Future of the Humanities Project event series — A Bent but Beautiful World: Literature, Art, and the Environment — we delve into the topical area of our environment. In recent years, we have rightly heard much about the world’s environmental problems, dangers, and disasters. However, in this series, we will invite speakers to...
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) challenged the world to become more Christian, and challenged Christians to live up to their beliefs. The Catholic Worker movement, which she co-founded and continually inspired, put her many powerful and thoughtful words into action. In this term’s reading group, we will be looking at some of those words and actions, focussing...
Dickens on How Not to Do It: Bureaucracy, Busyness, and the Cultural Afterlife of the Circumlocution Office In the preface to the first edition of Little Dorrit, Dickens proclaims that his novelistic exposition of the ‘whole Science of Government’ was based on the ‘common experience of an Englishman.’ Dickens in other words meant to give the...