Flannery O'Connor and Blaise Pascal. Recovering the Incarnation for the Modern Mind

Flannery O?Connor is a guide for the Catholic who seeks to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to live the life of faith in the modern world. O?Connor describes herself as a Catholic burdened by the modern consciousness which the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung views as ?unhistorical, solitary, and guilty.? Ann Hartle understands O?Connor?s fiction as her confrontation with this specifically modern form of consciousness. The seventeenth-century philosopher Blaise Pascal helps us to experience the meaning of O?Connor?s fiction because Pascal confronted that same consciousness in its origins in Montaigne?s philosophy. O?Connor recognizes in Pascal a truly Catholic modern philosopher who speaks to the experience of the searching mind of modern man. Flannery O'Connor and Blaise Pascal approaches O?Connor?s fiction from a philosophical perspective rather than the perspective of a literary critic. The goal of this volume is to deepen the experience of the meaning of her stories insofar as they are addressed to a specifically modern audience burdened with the form of consciousness that is highly skeptical of the historical reality of the Christian mystery. Hartle's argument is…

Издательство

CUA Press

Год

2025

Страниц

211

Язык

английский

ISBN

9780813239729