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In Thomas Merton's American Prophecy, Robert Inchausti Provides A Succinct Summary And Original Interpretation Of Merton's Contribution To American Thought. More Than Just A Critical Biography, This Book Lifts Merton Out Of The Isolation Of His Monastic Sub-culture And Brings Him Back Into Dialogue With Contemporary Secular Thinkers. In The Process, It Reopens One Of The Roads Not Taken At That Fateful, Cultural Crossroads Called The Sixties. Inchausti Presents Merton Not As The Spokesman For Any Particular Group, Cause, Or Idea, But Rather As The Quintessential American Outsider Who Defined Himself In Opposition To The World, Then Discovered A Way Back Into Dialogue With That World And Compassion For It. As A Result, Merton Was The Harbinger Of A Still Yet To Be Realized Eschatological Counter-culture: The Unacknowledged Precursor, Alternative, And Heir To Norman O. Brown's Defense Of Mystery In The Life Of The Mind. 1. Early Life -- 2. Conversion -- 3. The Monastic Turn -- 4. The Seven Storey Mountain -- 5. New Seeds Of Contemplation -- 6. Merton As Educator -- 7. Toward A Politics Of Being -- 8. Second Calling -- 9. Prometheus Reconsidered -- 10. The Third Position Of Integrity

Author

Inchausti, Robert, 1952-

Publisher

Albany: State University of New York Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780791436356

Subjects

Religion, Philosophy, Memoir