The Politics of the Real: The Church Between Liberalism and Integralism

· New Polity Press
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Schindler shows that liberalism is wrong, not because it has simply “relegated God to the private,” but because it has inverted the world: giving us power without authority, in what becomes a closed, necessarily totalitarian, horizon. Here, nothing else can be done with the transcendent God but to find a quiet little place to keep him, harmless and out of the way. When we let God out, a cosmic hierarchy of act—of participation in Being Himself—explodes into view. And this changes everything. A true integralism, a true postliberalism, moves politics back into a cosmos that is itself analogically ordered to participation in the life of God. With The Politics of the Real, Schindler has elevated the postliberal conversation.


— Andrew Willard Jones

Director of Catholic Studies at Franciscan University of Steubenville

and author of Before Church and State

Schindler shows that liberalism is wrong, not because it has simply “relegated God to the private,” but because it has inverted the world: giving us power without authority, in what becomes a closed, necessarily totalitarian, horizon. Here, nothing else can be done with the transcendent God but t...

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D. C. Schindler is Professor of Metaphysics and Anthropology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America. He is a translator from French and German, an editor of the North American edition of Communio, and an author of many books, including Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty and Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth. Professor Schindler lives in Hyattsville, Maryland with his wife and three children.

D. C. Schindler is Professor of Metaphysics and Anthropology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America. He is a translator from French and German, an editor of the North American edition of Communio, and an author of many boo...

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