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The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns - Reconciling Tradition in the Modern Age (Hardcover)
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The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns - Reconciling Tradition in the Modern Age (Hardcover)
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In The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns, the author
examines the dynamics of a small group of twentieth-century
traditionalists who reacted in opposition to the spirit of the
intellectual movements of the modern age. In particular, he draws
on the Inklings (e.g., C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien), Christian
humanists such as G.K Chesterton, and other proponents of the Great
Books and classical liberal learning to outline a position that
eschewed reactionary rejections of modern thought, but sought to
transcend its perceived limitations by asserting the continued
value of myth, religion, liberal education, and ancient texts. They
were more than instigators and wished to reconcile and translate
conservative traditional ideas within a progressive modern
scientific context. The author magnifies the intellectual trends in
modern Western thought in the twentieth-century and provides the
historical context for the resistance to the prominent and
convincing tenets of modernity. Given the myriad responses, he
focuses on a more conservative response to reductive definitions
born out of well-intentioned progressivism. The author approaches
the subject matter from an historical perspective, but utilizes an
interdisciplinary discourse to create a multi-dimensional
explanation of the intellectual atmosphere of the
twentieth-century.
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