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

Published by De Gruyter 2018

So What's New About Scholasticism?

How Neo-Thomism Helped Shape the Twentieth Century

Edited by: Rajesh Heynickx and Stéphane Symons
In collaboration with: Samuel O'Connor Perks

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110588255

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About this book

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.

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Rajesh Heynickx and Stéphane Symons, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Into Neo-Thomism: Reading the Fabric of an Intellectual Movement Stéphane Symons and Rajesh Heynickx Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I .Shaping A New Society
The Thomist Debate over Inequality and Property Rights in Depression-Era Europe James Chappel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Religion, human rights and democracy in post-1940 France in theory and practice: from Maritain’s Thomism to Vignaux’s secular realism Wim Weymans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Epistemological Tracks: On Religion, Words, and Buildings in 1950’s Belgium Rajesh Heynickx Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
When Personalism Met Planning: Jacques Maritain and a British Christian Intellectual Circle, 1937–1949 John Carter Wood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Part II. Encountering Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Aesthetics
Neo-Scholasticism, Phenomenology, and the Problem of Conversion Edward Baring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
A Great Deal of Controversy? A Case Study of Dondeyne, Grégoire, and Moeller Integrating Phenomenology and Existentialism in Louvain Neo-Thomism Dries Bosschaert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Gilson’s Poietics Adi Efal-Lautenschläger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Part III. Reconciling Science and Religion
Psychology from a Neo-Thomist Perspective. The Louvain-Madrid Connection Sigrid Leyssen and Annette Mülberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Science contra Science. The Battle for Legitimate Knowledge in the Spanish Catholic Journals in the Early Twentieth Century Jaume Navarro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Part IV. Mediating Tradition
The Analogy of Marshall McLuhan Christopher S. Morrissey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Vetera Novis Augere: Neo-Scholastic Philosophers and Their Concepts of Tradition Herman Paul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Thomas Aquinas or John Henry Newman? The Intellectual Itinerary of Johannes Willebrands Karim Schelkens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Index of Persons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, institutes, libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 309
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 7
Keywords: Neo-Scholasticism; New Theology; Thomas Aquinas

eBook

Published: July 9, 2018
ISBN: 9783110588255

Hardcover

Published: July 9, 2018
ISBN: 9783110586282