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Presents perspectives on intellectual, cultural and political questions faced by French and French-Canadian intellectuals who engaged with Catholicism in the period 1930-50, in the diverse but related fields of philosophy, theology, politics, literature and music. Names include Jacques and Raïssa Maritain, Emmanuel Mounier, Paul Valéry, Simone Weil, and many others.
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Acknowledgements Contents Introduction Katherine Davies and Toby Garfitt 1. "Catholicisme ondoyant": Catholic Intellectual Engagement and the Crisis of Civilization in the 1930s Michael Kelly 2. Paul Valery and French Catholicism: Recognizing the Context of Renewal Paul Gifford 3. A Strange Christian: Simone Weil Florence De Lussy 4. Grenier and the Essai sur l'esprit d'orthodoxie Toby Garfitt 5. Charles Du Bos's Catholicism and his Politics of Sincerity in Interwar France Katherine Davies 6. From Mystique to Theologique: Messiaen's "ordre nouveau," 1935-1939 Stephen Schloesser 7. Rethinking the Modernity of Bernanos: a Girardian Perspective Brian Sudlow 8. "Into the Catacombs of the Past": Women and Wartime Trauma in the French Catholic Ressourcement Project (1939-1945) Brenna Moore 9. La Releve and its Afterlife: A Current of Catholic Renewal in Twentieth-Century Quebec Joseph Dunlop 10. Louis Massignon: A Catholic Encounter with Islam and the Middle East Anthony O'Mahony
About the author
Katherine Davies (Author) Katherine Davies held lectureships in modern European history at Magdalen College Oxford and at Manchester, following which she became an independent researcher including consultancy work at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute and the Overseas Development Institute. Her publications include "A Third-Way Catholic Intellectual: Charles Du Bos, Tragedy and Ethics in Interwar Paris," Journal of the History of Ideas (2010), and "Continuity, Change and Contest: Meanings of 'Humanitarian' from the 'Religion of Humanity' to the Kosovo Wars" (2012).
Toby Garfitt (Author) Toby Garfittis tutorial fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He works on French literature of the last hundred years, with a particular interest in Catholic writers such as Mauriac, Bernanos, Patrice de La Tour du Pin, and Sylvie Germain. His latest books include Jean Grenier. Un écrivain et un maître: contribution à l'histoire intellectuelle du vingtième siècle (2010) and Jean Grenier Jean Guéhenno, Correspondance 1927-1969 (2011). Among recent articles, "Newman at the Sorbonne, or, the Vicissitudes of an Important Philosophical Heritage in Inter-war France" was published in History of European Ideas (2014), and "The Embodied Philosophy of Jean Grenier" in Embodiment: Phenomenological, Religious and Deconstructive Views on Living and Dying (2014).
Summary
Presents perspectives on intellectual, cultural and political questions faced by French and French-Canadian intellectuals who engaged with Catholicism in the period 1930-50, in the diverse but related fields of philosophy, theology, politics, literature and music. Names include Jacques and Raïssa Maritain, Emmanuel Mounier, Paul Valéry, Simone Weil, and many others.
