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1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations |
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KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society ; 7 |
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KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society ; 7
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-205) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973 -- Influence
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Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973 fast |
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Neo-Scholasticism.
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic.
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RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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Neo-Scholasticism
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Heynickx, Rajesh, 1977-
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Maeyer, Jan de, 1952-
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| ISBN |
9789461661074 |
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946166107X |
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