Maritain Factor

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

In elk geval blijft deze bundel een opvallend coherente verkenning van een hoogst relevante problematiek, die de grenzen van de figuur van Maritain overstijgt en cruciale vragen oproept over de relatie tussen kunst en literatuur in een turbulente periode.Pieter Verstraeten, Spiegel der Letteren, Volume 56, Issue 1, 2014