Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories, various essays, and numerous book reviews over the course of her life. Her work continues to fascinate, perplex, and inspire new generations of readers and poses important questions about human nature, ethics, social change, equality, and justice. Although political philosophy was not O’Connor’s pursuit, her writings frequently address themes that are not only crucial to American life and culture, but also offer valuable insight into the interplay between fiction and politics.
A Political Companion to Flannery O’Connor explores the author’s fiction, prose, and correspondence to reveal her central ideas about political thought in America. The contributors address topics such as O’Connor’s affinity with writers and philosophers including Eric Voegelin, Edith Stein, Russell Kirk, and the Agrarians; her attitudes toward the civil rights movement; and her thoughts on controversies over eugenics. Other essays in the volume focus on O’Connor’s influences, the principles underlying her fiction, and the value of her work for understanding contemporary intellectual life and culture.
Examining the political context of O’Connor’s life and her responses to the critical events and controversies of her time, this collection offers meaningful interpretations of the political significance of this influential writer’s work.
Table des matières
Flannery O’Connor and the Agrarians: Authentic Religion and Southern Identity
These Jesuits Work Fast: O’Connor’s Elusive Politics
Desegregation and the Silent Character in O’Connor’s Everything That Rises Must Converge
1963, a Pivotal Year: Flannery O’Connor and the Civil Rights Movement
Flannery O’Connor, Friedrich von Hügel, and This Modernist Business
Flannery O’Connor, the Left-Wing Mystic, and the German Jew: A Reconsideration
Sacramental Suffering: The Friendship of Flannery O’Connor and Elizabeth Hester
Flannery O’Connor as Baroque Artist: Theological and Literary Strategies
O’Connor and the Rhetoric of Eugenics: Misfits, the Unfit, and Us
School for Sanctity: O’Connor, Illich, and the Politics of Benevolence
He thinks he’s Jesus Christ!: Flannery O’Connor, Russell Kirk, and the Problem of Misguided Humanitarianism
Flannery O’Connor and Political Community in The Displaced Person
Future Flannery, or, Why we Need a Hillbilly Thomist to Help Unravel the Politics of Personhood in the Twenty-first Century
In Defense of Being: Flannery O’Connor and the Politics of Art
Flannery O’Connor, Eric Voegelin and the Question That Lies Between Them
A propos de l’auteur
Henry T. Edmondson III is Carl Vinson Endowed Chair of Political Science and Public Administration at Georgia College, Flannery O’Connor’s alma mater. He is the editor of The Moral of the Story: Literature and Public Ethics and the author of Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O’Connor’s Response to Nihilism.
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