Background
Amato, Joseph A. was born on August 31, 1938 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Joseph and Ethel May (Linsdau) Amato.
(An extended reflection on the pleasures and wisdom of gol...)
An extended reflection on the pleasures and wisdom of golf, "Golf Beats Us All" will satisfy the philosopher lurking in every avid golfer and make the golfer smarter and wiser about himself and his game. Author Joe Amato has long been fascinated by the myriad of pleasures offered by golf. And like any player, he remains intrigued by the fact that golfers find such pleasure in a game that causes so much pain, wastes so much time, and whose outcome is of utter insignificance. He offers an intelligent and searching conversation that invites readers to think about their relation to a game that makes them angels and fools.
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(JOSEPH AMATO TELLS THE STORY OF THE FAILED ATTEMPT BY LES...)
JOSEPH AMATO TELLS THE STORY OF THE FAILED ATTEMPT BY LESS-THAN-HONEST BUSINESSMEN TO INTRODUCE THE JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE TO THE DEPRESSED AGRICULTURAL REGION OF THE UNITED STATES.
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(A study of Emmanuel Mounier, founder of Personalism, and ...)
A study of Emmanuel Mounier, founder of Personalism, and Jacques Maritian, significant contributor to revival of Catholic thought and Thomism, and two generations of French Catholic intellectuals, this book examines the gulf between nineteenth century Catholic tradition and the twentieth-century European events. Amato's brilliant 1975 study of Mounier and Maritain's attempts to find a Catholic understanding of a world marked by total war, genocide, totalitarianism, mass society and the loss of faith in democracy. He shows us how much we still need to comprehend that period if we are to understand our new century as Catholics and Christians.
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( Victims and Values joins history and ethics, conducting...)
Victims and Values joins history and ethics, conducting a timely inquiry into conscience and politics. Mindful of William James's notion that ethics must be grounded in the historical situation, this book examines fundamental ambiquities, dichotomies, and contradictions that we experience about the worth of our own suffering and that of others. In particular, it analyzes how victims make a powerful claim upon contemporary conscience and politics. Amato distances himself equally from those who deny suffering all substantive meaning and those who fashionably transform it into self-righteous identities and political rhetorics and ideologies. Amato's hope is that each person will be able to take measure of the suffering of others, while still remaining able to value his own suffering. After distinguishing pain from suffering, Amato starts his work with the assumption that humanity must interpret and give meaning to its pains and sufferings. Amato examines the fundamental place of suffering, sacrifice, and victims in Greek and Christian cultures. Reaching the central object of his study, the modern mind, Amato shows how the reformist world view of the eighteenth century philosopher sought to reduce suffering to a matter of rational calculation and how the progressive views of the nineteenth century dedicated the most profound energies of society and state to the elimination of human suffering. Ironically, in the twentieth century this resulted in an increasingly hedonistic society that is preoccupied with suffering and its rights, victims and their claims. Historians, philosophers, political scientists, theologians, and lay people will all find a lively forum in Amato's work.
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Amato, Joseph A. was born on August 31, 1938 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Joseph and Ethel May (Linsdau) Amato.
Bachelor in History, University Michigan, 1960. Master of Arts in History, University Laval, Quebec, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy in History, University Rochester, 1970.
Professor of history, S.W. State University, Marshall, Minnesota, since 1969; director rural and regional studies, S.W. State University, Marshall, Minnesota, 1980-1992.
(A study of Emmanuel Mounier, founder of Personalism, and ...)
(An extended reflection on the pleasures and wisdom of gol...)
(JOSEPH AMATO TELLS THE STORY OF THE FAILED ATTEMPT BY LES...)
( Victims and Values joins history and ethics, conducting...)
(The book describes natural decline in rural Minnesota.)
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Married Catherine J. Bavolack, August 6, 1966. Children: Felice, Anthony, Adam, Ethel.