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Maritain Factor

Taking Religion into Interward Modernism

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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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 with Maritain. For all of them, the dictum of the Irish poet Brian Coffey, once a doctoral student under Maritain, applied: modern art needs a Thomist conceptual framework. However, the contributions in The Maritain Factor also show that, besides admiration, Maritain provoked irritation with his theories. Walter Benjamin for example, could only look at Maritain as a charlatan who was out to place modern art under the glass bell jar of Catholicism. The authors demonstrate that Catholic thought was not just one aspect of the manifold varieties of modernist discourses and practices, but in fact offered a basis to organize and structure this multiplicity in the 1920s and 1930s.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content)With contributions by: Philippe Chenaux, Jan De Maeyer, Michael Einfalt, Jason Harding, Rajesh Heynickx, Zoë Marie Jones, Ewoud Kieft, Mathijs Sanders, Stephen Schloesser, Stéphane Symons, Cécile Vanderpelen-Diagre, James Matthew Wilson.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-06-17
Mått178 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieKADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society
Antal sidor240
FörlagLeuven University Press
ISBN9789058677143

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Rajesh Heynickx is gewoon hoogleraar aan de Faculteit Architectuur en voorzitter van het Departement Architectuur van de KU Leuven.Rajesh Heynickx is intellectual historian at KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture.Jan De Maeyer is professor emeritus of contemporary church history at KU Leuven and honorary director of KADOC-KU Leuven. His research focuses on political and social Catholicism, material Christianity, and the development of religious institutions and congregations.

On the Road with MaritainEuropean Modernist Art Circles and Neo-Thomism during the InterwarRajesh HeynickxProfiling MaritainThe Rise of a Mystic ModernismMaritain and the Sacrificed Generation of the TwentiesStephen SchloesserCircles and Institutions. The Neo-Thomistic InfrastructurePhilippe ChenauxGrandes AmitiésSimilarity and IncompatibilityThe Aesthetics of Michel Seuphor and Jacques MaritainRajesh HeynickxTowards a Modern Religious Art. The Case of Albert ServaesJan De MaeyerMaritain in the NetherlandsPieter van der Meer de Walcheren and the Cult of YouthMathijs SandersCodifying Literature?Maritain and the Catholic Writers of Francophone BelgiumCécile Vanderpelen-DiagreGino Severini, a Classicist FuturistZoë Marie JonesConfrontationsSame City, Another Universe. On Jacques Maritain and Walter BenjaminStéphane SymonsBrian Coffey, Jacques Maritain and the Recovery of the 'Thing'James Matthew WilsonDebating Literary Autonomy. Jacques Maritain versus André GideMichael EinfaltMystic Modernism and PoliticsJacques Maritain, Joseph Roth and Anton van DuinkerkenEwoud Kieft'The Just Impartiality of a Christian Philosopher'.Jacques Maritain and T.S. EliotJason HardingBibliographyIndexContributorsColophon