Description: Phenomenology has the strongest claim to the mantle of continental philosophy. Edward Baring shows that credit for its prodigious growth goes to a surprising group of early enthusiasts: Catholic intellectuals. Tracing debates in Europe from existentialism to speculative realism, he shows why European philosophy bears the mark of Catholicism.
Brief description: Edward Baring is Associate Professor of Modern European History at Drew University and was a Guggenheim Fellow. He is author of The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968, which won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas.
Review Quotes: Well-written and direct, Converts to the Real is bold and well worth reading by all interested in philosophy or Catholicism.--Graham McAleer "Law & Liberty" (10/28/2019 12:00:00 AM)