Jean Bethke Elshtain : politics, ethics, and society / edited by Debra Erickson and Michael Le Chevallier.

Contributor Erickson, Debra, editor.

ImprintNotre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 2018.

Descriptionxi, 403 pages ; 24 cm

Note:Includes index.

Note:Jean Bethke Elshtain, life and work / Debra Erickson and Michael Le Chevallier -- part I: The political question. Introduction / Robin W. Lovin -- Becoming Jean Elshtain: exploring the intersections of social feminism and civic life / William A. Galston -- The context and texts of Public man, private woman: Jean Bethke Elshtain in the world of ideas and action / Arlene W. Saxonhouse -- Elshtain's "reflective" ethics of feminism and family: an appreciation and critique / Don Browning -- Striking the balance: blending liberty, tradition, and reform / Peter Berkowitz -- Democracy, depression, and disability: Jean Elshtain on democracy, despair, and hope / Nancy J. Hirschmann -- part II: Cities of God and man. Introduction / Michael Kessler -- Sovereign no more? Selves, states, and God in our bewildering global environment / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Staggering onward, rejoicing: Jean Bethke Elshtain, Augustinian realist / Nigel Biggar -- Engaging the mind of Elshtain on sovereignty / Gilbert Meilaender -- Taking love seriously: Elshtain's Augustinian voice and modern politics / Eric Gregory -- Supremacy at stake: religion and the sovereign state in the work of Jean Elshtain / Daniel Philpott -- part III: Nations and citizens at peace and war. Introduction / Marc LiVecche -- Two sovereigns? Violence and the ambiguities of Jean Bethke Elshtain's Christian realism / Nicholas Rengger -- The education of a just war thinker: politics and patriotism through the lens of gender / John D. Carlson -- A new, but still a just war against terror / Chris Brown -- Just war and religion: reflections on the work of Jean Elshtain / Michael Walzer -- The effect of perspectives on thinking about sovereignty: a dialogue with Jean Bethke Elshtain / James Turner Johnson -- part IV: The end(s) of political life. Introduction / Erik Owens -- Civil society and political society / Francis Fukuyama -- Religion and democracy: beyond the clash of civilizations / Carl Gershman -- Defending the indefensible: the tragedy of Jean Bethke Elshtain's defense of the liberal consensus / Patrick J. Deneen -- The limits of politics and the inevitability of ethics / Robin W. Lovin.

Note:"Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013) was a noted ethicist, political philosopher, and public intellectual. Her four decades of scholarship defy easy categorization: she wrote both seminal works of theory and occasional pieces for the popular press, and she was variously viewed as radical and conservative, feminist and traditionalist, anti-war and pro-interventionist. Jean Bethke Elshtain: Politics, Ethics, and Society is the first attempt to evaluate Elshtain's entire published body of work and to give shape to a wide-ranging scholarly career, with an eye to her work's ongoing relevance. This collection of essays brings together scholars and public intellectuals from across the spectrum of disciplines in which Elshtain wrote." --Provided by publisher.

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