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Lonergan's Quest: A Study of Desire in the Authoring of "Insight.".

Publication: Theological Studies
Publication Date: 01-DEC-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Lonergan's Quest: A Study of Desire in the Authoring of "Insight.".(Book review)

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LONERGAN'S QUEST: A STUDY OF DESIRE IN THE AUTHORING OF "INSIGHT." By William A. Mathews. Toronto: University of Toronto, 2005. Pp. ix + 564. $100.

The 1906 attempt to create a labor union in Buckingham, Ontario--Bernard Lonergan's hometown--resulted in the death of two strikers and the arrest of many others. Mathews incorporates this kind of detail in coming to understand Lonergan's unfolding desire for understanding, in this case understanding the strains of economic activity. M. also successfully employs Ira Progoff's notion of key "stepping-stones" to understand the unfolding of this desire in Lonergan's life up to the 1957 publication of Insight. Family background, economic instability, world wars, scientific discoveries, philosophical schools--all these accompanied the...

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