Province News

New Books edited by Chicago Province Jesuit Authors Frank Oppenheim, SJ, and Walt Krolikowski, SJ
Tuesday, December 18, 2001

Fr. Walter P. Krolikowski, SJ, and Michael A. Oliker are the editors of Images of Youth: Popular Culture as Educational Ideology, which was published this year by Peter Lang Publishers.

The book considers the cause and effect relationships between Superman comics, Jimmy Cagney films, Pink Floyd, the Beatles and adolescent behavior. In a series of essays edited by Fr. Krolikowski and Oliker, 12 educators consider the evidence and arrive at startlingly different conclusions.

Fr. Gene D. Phillips, SJ, a professor of English and film at Loyola University Chicago, authored one of the book's 12 essays, "James Cagney's Appeal to Immigrant Youth in the 1930's"

Fr. Frank Oppenheim, SJ, who spends hours each day studying the works and philosophy of the late Josiah Royce, has recently edited an edition of Josiah Royce's late writings, Unpublished and Scattered. Fr. Oppenheim also penned the introduction for this edition, which was published by Thoemmes Press of Bristol, England.

Fr. Oppenheim also edited and wrote introductions for new edition of Royce's Sources of Religious Insight and The Problem of Christianity, both of which were published this year by Catholic University of America Press.