November 18, 1882–April 28, 1973

Jacques Maritain was perhaps the greatest Catholic philosopher of the twentieth century.

A convert, along with his wife Raïssa, from agnosticism to Catholicism, Maritain wrote extensively on metaphysics, aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of history—all with the guiding inspiration of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas.

For decades, Maritain’s bibliography was left in a state of neglect, absent the occasional academic collection or inferior facsimile. Since 2016, CLUNY has changed that state of affairs on its head, re-issuing thirteen titles—including the outstanding Art and Scholasticism, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, and The Primacy of the Spiritual.