The Challenge of Lonergan’s Thought

The Reach of Critical Realism

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Description

In challenging us to be conscious of our own subjectivity, Bernard Lonergan set out an updated mode of Aristotelian epistemology that took insights from every major philosophical tradition of the modern era. This book explains how that unique positioning makes his ideas perfectly placed to bridge the divide between analytic and continental philosophy.

Andrew Beards uses Lonergan's approach not only to understand the many connections between analytic and continental traditions, but to engage with them in new and creative ways. Throughout, he puts Lonergan into conversation with other leading thinkers like St John Henry Newman, G. E. Moore, Friedrich Nietszche and L. M. Chauvet, drawing on Lonergan's own direct engagement with their philosophies to underscore the wide-ranging significance of his transcendental method.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Newman, Lonergan and the dialectic of epistemology I
Chapter 2: Newman, Lonergan and the dialectic of epistemology II
Chapter 3: The Irreducibility of the Good: G. E. Moore and Bernard Lonergan
Chapter 4: Chapter 4: Epistemic Traction: Critical Realism, Quine and Gila Sher
Chapter 5: F. Nietzsche: A Master of Modern and post-modern suspicions
Chapter 6: Cathedrals of Light: Chauvet after Heidegger
Chapter 7: Method in Theology a half century on
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 13 Nov 2025
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9781350459267
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 10 bw illus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Andrew Beards

Andrew Beards is lecturer and tutor at Allen Hall…

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