TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vanheste,Jeroen
TI  - Guardians of the humanist legacy: the classicism of T.S. Eliot's Criterion network and its relevance to our postmodern world 
T2  - Brill eBook titles 2007
SN  - 9789047420088
AV  - B821 .V365 2007
U1  - 171.2 23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Eliot, T. S.
KW  - Criterion miscellany
KW  - Classicisme
KW  - gtt
KW  - Criterion (tijdschrift)
KW  - Humanisme (levensbeschouwing)
KW  - Humanism
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 515-521) and index; Preliminary Material -- Chapter One Introduction and overview -- Part I: Classicism in the Interbellum -- Chapter Two A network of reviews and intellectuals -- Chapter Three Classicism and the humanistic tradition -- Chapter Four The philosophy of classicism -- Chapter Five Classicism and the Idea of Europe -- Chapter Six The cultural criticism of classicism -- Chapter Seven Classicist views on literature and art -- Part II: Contemporary humanism and anti-humanism -- Chapter Eight Anti-humanism after WW2 -- Chapter Nine Contemporary humanist voices -- Chapter Ten A secular humanism for our time -- Chapter Eleven Classicism, postwar humanism and after -- Appendix A The Criterion: a brief history -- Appendix B Bibliography -- Index -- Philosophy of History and Culture; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In recent scholarly work, T.S. Eliot has usually been associated with cultural elitism and political conservatism, or even with proto-fascism and anti-Semitism. This book proposes a different view. During the Interbellum, Eliot and his review The Criterion were part of an international network of intellectuals that shared an open-minded Europeanness. Authors like T. Mann, Benda, Ortega y Gasset, Curtius and Hofmannsthal emphasized their common European roots and shared cultural legacy. Their 'classicism' stands in the European tradition of humanism and has remained highly relevant. Classicist ideas about literature, education and human culture in general continue to inspire contemporary humanist thinkers, as the second part of this book demonstrates by discussing the work of Ferry, Todorov, Steiner, Scruton, Toulmin and others
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004161603.i-555
ER  -