Online Books by Jacques Maritain
Art and Scholasticism & The Frontiers of Poetry
Originally published in 1920, Art and Scholasticism was Jacques Maritain's first attempt to bring the principles of scholastic philosophy to bear on the domain of the fine arts. Joseph W. Evans, founder and inaugural director of the Jacques Maritain Center at Notre Dame, prepared the translation presented here from the work's third edition (1935), to which is added the essay "The Frontiers of Poetry," originally published in 1927.
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An Essay on Christian Philosophy
In this short work, Maritain elucidates the relationship between philosophy and Christianity from a Thomistic perspective, arguing that the philosophy has its own proper nature and end, but that its state or condition is necessarily altered by Christian revelation. He considers rival positions espoused by Émile Bréhier, according to whom the existence of Christian philosophy is denied, and Marcel Blondel, according to whom the philosophical enterprise effectively implies Christianity within its immanent structure.
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Antisemitism
Based on lectures delivered in his native Paris and New York City in 1938, Jacques Maritain's Antisemitism documented the precarious situation of Jews across Europe on the eve of the Second World War. Maritain considers the social, political, and spiritual dimensions of the issue, drawing both from contemporary sources and the witness of St Paul.
On the Philosophy of History
Maritain's On the Philosophy of History is based on four lectures delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 1955. He outlines here the relationship that the philosophy of history has with other philosophical subjects and theology, then presents certain laws and stages of history that are to be contrasted with those of the Hegelian and Comtian systems.
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The following works are currently being prepared for the site and will be available soon:
- Moral Philosophy
- Notebooks
- On the Church of Christ
- The Person and the Common Good
- The Range of Reason
- Reflections on America
- The Responsibility of the Artist
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- Selected transcriptions of manuscripts from the Jacques Maritain Papers