Modernism after the death of God : Christianity, fragmentation, and unification
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Modernism after the death of God : Christianity, fragmentation, and unification
Routledge, 2017
- : hbk
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Includes index
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Modernism After the Death of God explores the work of seven influential modernists. Friedrich Nietzsche, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Andre Gide, and Martin Heidegger criticized the destructive impact that they believed Christian sexual morality had had or threatened to have on their love life. Although not a Christian, Freud criticized the negative effect that Christian sexual morality had on his clinical subjects and on Western civilization, while Virginia Woolf condemned how her society was sanctioned by a patriarchal Christian authority. All seven worked to replace the loss or absence of Christian unity with non-Christian unifying projects in their respective fields of philosophy, psychiatry, or literature. The basic structure of their main contributions to modernist culture was a dynamic interaction of radical fragmentation necessitating radical unification that was always in process and never complete.
Table of Contents
Introduction: From Christian unity to modernist unification
Chapter 1. Friedrich Nietzsche: greatness, meaning, and authenticity
Chapter 2. James Joyce: wholeness, harmony, and radiance
Chapter 3. Sigmund Freud: psychoanalysis and psychosynthesis
Chapter 4. D. H. Lawrence: spontaneous-creative fullness of being
Chapter 5. Andre Gide: wholly available to life and love
Chapter 6. Martin Heidegger: pursuing the question of Being
Chapter 7. Virginia Woolf: creating shape out of chaos
Conclusion: A modernist ideal type
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