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

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Christian Modernism in an Age of Totalitarianism: T.S. Eliot, Karl Mannheim and the Moot
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Dr Jonas Kurlberg
SeriesHistoricizing Modernism
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
ISBN/Barcode 9781350211575
ClassificationsDewey:270.8/24
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date 28 January 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 Drawing on previously unpublished archival documents, this is the first in-depth study of the group's work, writings and ideas in the decade of its existence from 1938-1947.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

Author Biography

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