So What's New About Scholasticism? - How Neo-Thomism Helped Shape the Twentieth Century

In So What's New about Scholasticism? thirteen international scholars gauge the extraordinary impact of a religiously inspired conceptual framework in a modern society. The essays that are brought together in this volume reveal that Neo-Thomism became part of contingent social contexts and varying intellectual domains. Rather than an ecclesiastic project of like-minded believers, Neo-Thomism was put into place as a source of inspiration for various concepts of modernization and progress.
This volume reconstructs how Neo-Thomism sought to resolve disparities, annul contradictions and reconcile incongruent, new developments. It asks the question why Neo-Thomist ideas and arguments were put into play and how they were transferred across various scientific disciplines and artistic media, growing into one of the most influential master-narratives of the twentieth century.
Edward Baring, Dries Bosschaert, James Chappel, Adi Efal-Lautenschläger, Rajesh Heynickx, Sigrid Leyssen, Christopher Morrissey, Annette Mülberger, Jaume Navarro, Herman Paul, Karim Schelkens, Wim Weymans and John Carter Wood reconstruct a bewildering, yet decipherable thought-structure that has left a deep mark on twentieth century politics, philosophy, science and religion.

Product details

• Assisted by: Rajesh Heynickx (Editor), Samuel O'Connor Perks (Editor), Symons (Editor), Stéphane Symons (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.07.2018
• EAN: 9783110586282
• ISBN: 978-3-11-058628-2
• No. of pages: 309
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 22 mm x 232 mm
• Weight: 588 g
• Illustrations: 7 b/w ill.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day