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Existence AND THE
Existent JACQUES MARITAIN FOREWORD BY
JOHN G. TR APANI, APANI, JR.
PAULIST P RESS NEW YORK / / MAHWAH, NJ
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English version by Lewis Galantiere and Gerald B. Phelan. Copyright © 1948 by The Jacques Maritain Center First published in French as Court Traité de l’Existence et de l’Existant This edition published in 2015 by Paulist Press, Inc. Preface copyright © 2015 by John G. Trapani, Jr. Cover image by Denis Babenko / Shutterstock.com Cover design by Sharyn Banks Book design by Lynn Else All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted permitted under Sec tion 107 or 108 of the 1976 United nited States Copyright Act, Act, without the prior w ritten ritten permiss permiss ion of the Publisher. Publisher. Requests to the Publisher Publisher for permiss permissio ion n shoul s hould d be address ed to the Permi P ermiss ssion ionss Department, Paulist Press, 997 Macarthur Boulevard, Mahwah, NJ 07430, (201) 825-7300, fax (201) 825-8345, or online at www.paulistpress.com. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Maritai Maritain, n, Jacques, 1882–1973. [Court traité de l’existence et de l’existant. English] Existence and the existent / Jacques Maritain ; foreword by John G. Trapani, Jr. pages cm ISBN 978-0-8091-4832-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-58768-241-4 (ebook) 1. Existentialism. 2. Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?–1274. I. Title. B2430.M33C6813 2015 142’.78—dc23 2014035860 ISBN 978-0-8091-4832-5 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-58768-241-4 (e-book) Produced by Paulist Press 997 Macarthur Boulevard Mahwah, New Jersey 07430 www.paulistpress.com
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