The Maritain factor : taking religion into interwar modernism /
By studying the reception and perception of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, this book argues that European modernist artists and intellectuals sought a primordial finality in Catholicism. The French poet, writer, and surrealist filmmaker Jean Cocteau converted under the influence o...
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Leuven, Belgium :
Leuven University Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society ;
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Table of Contents:
- The Maritain Factor
- Taking Religion into Interwar Modernism; Editorial Board; Contents; On the Road with Maritain
- European Modernist Art Circles and Neo-Thomism during the Interwar; On Maritain; The Modernist Scene; Plot Summary; Profiling Maritain; The Rise of a Mystic Modernism
- Maritain and the Sacrificed Generation of the Twenties; Modernism and Nostalgia; Deciding Steps in the Twenties; Thomism as a Cultural Hylomorphism; Circles and Institutions
- The Neo-Thomistic Infrastructure; An emerging master; The Meudon home; 'Le Roseau d'Or'; Grandes Amitiés.
- Similarity and Incompatibility
- The Aesthetics of Michel Seuphorand Jacques Maritain'Le Style' and 'le CRI'; A Clash; Dada: Attitude and Strategy; Conclusion; Towards a Modern Religious Art
- The Case of Albert Servaes; The Protagonists: Latem and Servaes; Albert Servaes's Stations of the Cross: Satan at work?; Servaes and Maritain: The Deeper Dimensions of the Incident of the Stations of the Cross; Towards a Renewed Religious Art; Art et Scolastique: the Artist's Breviary; Maritain in the Netherlands
- Pieter van der Meer de Walcheren and the Cult of Youth; A Roman Catholic Counterculture.
- Are we Modern?Literary Battles; Pieter van der Meer de Walcheren as a Mediator; Conclusion; Codifying Literature?
- Maritain and the Catholic Writers of Francophone Belgium; Thomistic Poetry: Apprehending Reality; A Personalist Revolution; The Neo-Thomistic Aesthetics Questioned; Conclusion; Gino Severini, a Classicist Futurist; Severini's Return to Catholicism; The Impact of Bergsonian thought; A Meeting of Minds: Neo-Thomism and Classicism; Modern Art turning Towards Religion; Confrontations; Same City, Another Universe
- On Jacques Maritain and Walter Benjamin; I; II; III.
- Brian Coffey, Jacques Maritain and the Recovery of the 'Thing'Debating Literary Autonomy
- Jacques Maritain versus André Gide; Designing a Relative Autonomy; Two Conflicting Poles; Coda; Mystic Modernism and Politics
- Jacques Maritain, Joseph Roth and Anton van Duinkerken; Jacques Maritain and 'Action Française'; The Cultural Roots of Fascism; Anton van Duinkerken's Struggle Against 'False Mysticism'; Joseph Roth versus the Antichrist; Conclusion; "The Just Impartiality of a Christian Philosopher"
- Jacques Maritain and T.S. Eliot; I; II; III; IV; Bibliography; Index; Contributors; Colophon.