Christian Modernism in an Age of Totalitarianism

T.S. Eliot, Karl Mannheim and the Moot

Dr Jonas Kurlberg (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-09051-4 (ISBN)

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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 Drawing on previously unpublished archival documents, this is the first in-depth study of the group’s work, writings and ideas in the decade of its existence from 1938-1947.

Christian Modernism in an Age of Totalitarianism 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.

Jonas Kurlberg is the Programme Manager of the MA in Digital Theology at Durham University, UK.

List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments

1 INTRODUCTION: THE MOOT AND MODERNISM
Brief Overview of the Moot
Political Modernism: Decadence and Revival
The Moot as a Modernist Experiment
The Moot, Modernism and Christianity
Notes on Sources and Methodology

2 THE MOOT AND CIVILIZATIONAL CRISIS
Introduction
Christianity and Crisis
The Moot and Crisis
Conclusion

3 THE REBIRTH OF CHRISTENDOM
Introduction
New Beginnings Through a New Christendom
Maritain’s neo-Thomism, Medieval Modernism and the Moot
The Influence of Jacques Maritain’s True Humanism on the Moot
Lessons from Medieval Christendom
Planning for Freedom
Conclusion: ‘Programmatic Modernism’, Prospects and Tensions

4 ‘WHY WE HATE THE GESTAPO’: LIBERALISM, TOTALITARIANISM AND THE THIRD WAY
Introduction
The Church, Community and State Conference, and Christian Totalitarianism
The Moot on Liberalism and Democracy
Engaging with the Political Alternatives
Conclusion

5 CONFLICTS IN LIGHT OF MODERNISM: T. S. ELIOT AND KARL MANNHEIM IN DIALOGUE
Introduction
Eliot and Mannheim at the Moot
Common Ground
Clashes on the Transformation of Culture
Conclusion

6 THE MOOT AS A REVITALISATION MOVEMENT
Introduction
Creating a Manifesto
Oldham’s Councils
The Formation of an Order
New education, new man
Channels of dissemination
Revolutionary or reformist?
Conclusion: The Moot’s failed revolution

7 CONCLUSION
Modernist interpretive framing
Theoretical gains
Legacy of the Moot

APPENDIX: LIST OF THE MOOT MEMBERS
Regular members
Visitors

BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Erscheinungsdatum	26.06.2019
Reihe/Serie	Historicizing Modernism
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	562 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-09051-4 / 1350090514
ISBN-13	978-1-350-09051-4 / 9781350090514
Zustand	Neuware