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Why did so many distinguished Western Intellectuals--from G.B. Shaw to J.P. Sartre, and. closer to home, from Edmund Wilson to Susan Sontag - admire various communist systems, often in their most repressive historical phases? How could Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's China, or Cast…
Alsted, professor of philosophy and theology at the Calvinist academy of Herborn, was a man of many parts. This intellectual biography opens up unexpected perspectives on the central European Reformed tradition as a whole.
"The Other Calling is a systematic riposte both to the elitism of philosophy in the heritage of Plato, and to the typical individualism of Plato's philosophic opponents. Here instead intellectual integrity is identified with a form of priesthood."--Jacket.