Christian Modernism in an Age of Totalitarianism - T.S. Eliot, Karl Mannheim and the Moot

With fascism on the march in Europe and a second World War looming, a group of Britain''s leading intellectuals - including T.S. Eliot, Karl Mannheim, John Middleton Murry, J. H. Oldham and Michael Polanyi - gathered together to explore ways of revitalising a culture that seemed to have lost its way. The group called themselves ''the Moot''. Drawing on previously unpublished archival documents, this is the first in-depth study of the group''s work, writings and ideas in the decade of its existence from 1938-1947. explores the ways in which an important and influential strand of Modernist thought in the interwar years turned back to Christian ideas to offer a blueprint for the revitalisation of European culture. In this way the book challenges conceptions of Modernism as a secular movement and sheds new light on the culture of the late Modernist period.>

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• Authors: Dr Jonas Kurlberg, Jonas Kurlberg, Jonas (University of Edinburgh Kurlberg
• Assisted by: Matthew Feldman (Editor), Erik Tonning (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781350090514
• ISBN: 978-1-350-09051-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Historicizing Modernism; Historicizing Modernism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000