{"product_id":"9781487599379","title":"Understanding and Being: The Halifax Lectures on Insight, Volume 5","description":"\u003cp\u003eBernard Lonergan (1904-1984) was a noted Canadian philosopher and theologian. He devoted his life to articulating a generalized method of inquiry and its implications, not only for the human and natural sciences, but also for a better world and a higher quality of human life. His own clear vision showed him the need to overcome the terrible fragmentation of knowledge and life in our time. The struggle to achieve an integrated view is the theme that unified the body of his work. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the history of that struggle, \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding and Being\u003c\/em\u003e plays a central role. Published a year after his profound and complex Insight, it is the edited transcription of some thirty hours of Lonergan's lectures on that seminal book. \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding and Being\u003c\/em\u003e serves as a guide to the very challenging terrain of Insight, or, as one commentator put it, if Insight is the Everest in the range of Lonergan's works, Understanding and Being is the approach through rolling foothills. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis edition, the second, incorporates more of the historical setting in the text and adds a wealth of explanatory notes, as well as previously unedited discussions that followed the lectures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144788295920,"sku":"9781487599379","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781487599379_p0.jpg?v=1763636090","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781487599379","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}