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Ranked by many scholars as one of the most important moral philosophers of the twentieth century, Aurel Kolnai has been inexplicably neglected in this country until quite recently. He is best known for his works of political philosophy, recently published under the title The Utopian Mind: A Critical Study in Moral and Political Philosophy. Here, for the first time ever in English, is Kolnai's magnum opus, his Political Memoirs, superbly annotated and edited by Francesca Murphy of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. The memoirs recount the author's life, from his childhood in the turn-of-the-century Austro-Hungarian Empire to his education in Germany and his early professional life in prewar Vienna. It was in these formative years that he converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism and began his career as a writer and philosopher. The narrative continues through his years in exile in the United States and Canada, where he lived before ultimately settling in Great Britain and being granted citizenship in 1955.
Francesca Murphy is in the Department of Divinity with Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen.
Chapter 1 AcknowledgmentsChapter 2 Aurel Kolnai: Ten Plagues and Ten CommandmentsChapter 3 Biographical NotesChapter 4 IntroductionPart 5 Chapter 1 ArmageddonChapter 6 One's Choice Is One's LawChapter 7 The Theme of the Great WarChapter 8 Lutheran "Obergymnasium"Chapter 9 The Double ConsciousnessChapter 10 The Twisting of the ThemePart 11 Chapter 2 Shadows of TotalityChapter 12 The End of the World: Swift and UnnoticedChapter 13 The Ghost of ReactionChapter 14 The Mirage of ProgressChapter 15 Revolution, or the Fool's ParadisePart 16 Chapter 3 When Tyranny Was YoungChapter 17 The Impact of BolshevismChapter 18 Homeward ExileChapter 19 My Crimes Against PsychoanalysisChapter 20 Ideas, Contacts and PolemicsPart 21 Chapter 4 In Statu ViaeChapter 22 Conversion: "Metanoia" and FulfillmentChapter 23 The DecisionChapter 24 God and ChurchChapter 25 CatholicismChapter 26 Paths That Lead to Rome: Spiritual AspectsPart 27 Chapter 5 Chesterton and RealismChapter 28 Nearer to Me than I am to MyselfChapter 29 Paths that Lead to Rome: Some Literary and Personal InfluencesChapter 30 Some Problems in CatholicismChapter 31 The Convert's ProgressPart 32 Chapter 6 The Coming of the NightmareChapter 33 Years of ApprenticeshipChapter 34 Democracy and "Anschlusz"Chapter 35 A Summer Term in FreiburgChapter 36 Philosophy and PoliticsChapter 37 The Gathering StormChapter 38 Socialist and Catholic Rightists in AustriaChapter 39 "Religious Socialists" and "Christian Democrats"Part 40 Chapter 7 The Promised LandChapter 41 The Turn of LifeChapter 42 The West InvadedChapter 43 The Setting SunChapter 44 The City of LordsChapter 45 The Suicide of PacifismPart 46 Chapter 8 IntermezzoChapter 47 The EscapePart 48 Chapter 9 Civitas HominisChapter 49 The "Choice for Freedom's Brotherhood"Chapter 50 My American LifeChapter 51 The Kingdom for the Common ManChapter 52 American CatholicismPart 53 Chapter 10 The Realms of the Boreal PoleChapter 54 The Enemy Comes into His OwnChapter 55 Homeward ExileChapter 56 "In the Frozen Sweat of Thy Brow"Chapter 57 Canadian TwilightChapter 58 Persons and IncidentsChapter 59 A Journey of GhostsChapter 60 EndnotesPart 61 AppendixChapter 62 "Physical Premonition" Versus Human Responsibility and Divine JudgementChapter 63 The "Official" Status of Thomism and the Problem of Christian PhilosophyChapter 64 "Integralism", Opportunism and ModernismChapter 65 Index
Karl Popper wrote, "I personally think I could learn more from Kolnai, by way of stimulation, than from any other thinker in the field of political philosophy alive." . . . There seems finally to be a (slowly) growing recognition of Kolnai's achievements; . . . now we have Kolnai's provocative memoirs, nicely edited by Francesca Murphy.