Member Profiles
John G. Trapani
Walsh University
Education
Ph.D., St. John’s University
B.A., St. John’s University
AMA Presentations
(2023) “Secret Agent of the King of Kings: The Life and Spirit of Jacques Maritain.”
(2022) “When is a Curveball Like a Work of Art? Gaining Clarity about Aesthetic Judgement, Artistic Truth, and the Cultivation of Good Taste.”
(2020) “Taking Maritain Seriously: Flashes of Light About the Self and the Interior
Life.”
(2019) “‘Woe to Me ...:’ Maritainian Perennial Themes.”
(2019) “Understanding Music Truthfully: What Maritain Might Have Said,” with Christopher Grey.
(2018) “ What’s the [Prime] Matter? Maritain on Human Generation, Species Evolution, and the Reason Why Science Needs the Philosophy of Nature.”
(2017) “O Truth, What Crimes Are Committed in Thy Name: Philosophical Reflections on a Divided America.”
Publications
Books
(2021) Poetry, Beauty, and Contemplation: The Complete Aesthetics of Jacques Maritain. Catholic University of America Press.
Truth Matters: Essays in Honor of Jacques Maritain (American Maritain Association
Publications, 2004).
Edited Books
(2004) Truth Matters: Essays in Honor of Jacques Maritain. Catholic University of America Press.
Academic Articles
(1988). “Foundations of Maritain’s Notion of the Artist’s “Self,”” Maritain Studies 4: 171-78.
(1985). Maritain’s Philosophy of Art in Jacques
Maritain philosophe dans la cité,” with P.J. Marcotte and M. C. Rose, Philosophica 28: 173-206.