The Maritain Factor : Taking Religion into Interwar Modernism / Rajesh Heynickx, Jan De Maeyer, eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maeyer, Jan de, 1952-

Heynickx, Rajesh, 1977-

Series:

KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society ; 7.

KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Neo-Scholasticism.

Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973--Criticism and interpretation.

Maritain, Jacques.

Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 of Maritain. For the painters Gino Severini, a pioneer of Futurism, and Otto Van Rees, one of the first Dadaists -both converts- Maritain played the role of spiritual counselor. And when the promoter of abstract art Michel Seuphor embraced Catholic faith in the 1930s, he, too, had extensive contact w

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-205) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

94-6166-107-X

OCLC:

873808625