Quest for Self-Knowledge: An Essay in Lonergan's Philosophy - USED PHI

• Title: Quest for Self-Knowledge: An Essay in Lonergan's Philosophy

• Author: Joseph Flanagan, S.J. (1925–2010), longtime chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Lonergan Institute at Boston College.

• Series: Lonergan Studies

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press Incorporated (Toronto, Buffalo, London), 1997

• Edition / Printing: First Edition, First Printing (Cloth Hardcover). The copyright page specifically shows both ISBNs: 0-8020-0866-6 (cloth) and 0-8020-7851-6 (paper). This is the cloth library edition.

• Binding: Blue cloth hardcover with bold metallic gold titling and an oversized stylized graphic "Q" stamped across the front board.

Interesting Facts

• The Guide to a Philosophical Giant: Bernard Lonergan, S.J. (1904–1984), was one of the 20th century's most formidable Catholic philosophers and theologians, renowned for his magnum opus Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957). Because Insight is famously dense and difficult, Joseph Flanagan wrote this book specifically to serve as the definitive, accessible roadmap to Lonergan's cognitive theory of "self-appropriation" (understanding what one is actually doing when one is knowing).

• The Boston College & Toronto Axis: The University of Toronto Press is the global academic home for the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan. Flanagan spent decades directing Boston College’s Lonergan Institute, making this one of the most authoritative secondary texts on Lonerganian epistemology ever published under this imprint.

• The Dedication: The book bears the dedication: "To the memory of Bernard Lonergan who bequeathed to the world a new method."

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