{"product_id":"be-not-afraid","title":"Be Not Afraid","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Emmanuel Mounier\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRomano Guardini, \u003c\/b\u003ein the wake of World War II, wrote: “The signs of the times have indicated…with all the spontaneity of a genuine symptom, that the human personality is in danger.” Diagnosing and treating the cause of this symptom was, for Emmanuel Mounier, a mission of the utmost urgency. His philosophy of personalism represented “a total effort to comprehend and outgrow the whole crisis of the twentieth-century man.” \u003ci\u003eBe Not Afraid\u003c\/i\u003e is a \u003ci\u003eprécis\u003c\/i\u003e of Mounier’s thought: his critiques of materialism and scientism; his Péguy-inspired dialectic of revolution; his distrust of the structures of liberalism and dismay at the uninhibited sprawl of capitalism; and the conflict between his sympathies toward Marxism and his acceptance of the Christian gospel that “in hope we are saved.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eAn impassioned appraisal of past and present, \u003ci\u003eBe Not Afraid: A Denunciation of Despair\u003c\/i\u003e sheds fulsome, at times uncomfortable, light on the life of the Western mind at the midpoint of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eOne should add, in order to describe the whole Christian attitude, that the full series of summits is hidden from us in the unfathomable dark of history. We only know that the movement is forward, and we can sometimes see it in the main. But we cannot foretell its ways, its halts and detours. \u003c\/i\u003e(Emmanuel Mounier)\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmmanuel Mounier\u003c\/b\u003e (1905–1950) was a French philosopher and prominent proponent of personalism, who founded and directed the journal \u003ci\u003eEsprit\u003c\/i\u003e and wrote extensively on politics and religion, society and economics, and culture and history. His works in English include: \u003ci\u003ePersonalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eExistentialist Philosophies\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Character of Man\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/strong\u003e242pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1952826740\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51320587649312,"sku":"978-1952826740","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/3678\/2112\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--499.jpg?v=1773076022","url":"https:\/\/treewee.store\/products\/be-not-afraid","provider":"Tree of Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}