So What’s New About Scholasticism? : How Neo-thomism Helped Shape The Twentieth Century

✍ Scribed by Rajesh Heynickx, Stéphane Symons, Samuel O’Connor Perks

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 491
• Edition: Hardcover
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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-Lautenschl�ger, Rajesh Heynickx, Sigrid Leyssen, Christopher Morrissey, Annette M�lberger, 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
Into Neo-Thomism: Reading the Fabric of an Intellectual Movement......Page 12
Part I Shaping A New Society......Page 32
The Thomist Debate over Inequality and Property Rights in Depression-Era Europe......Page 36
Religion, human rights and democracy in post-1940 France in theory and practice: from Maritain’s Thomism to Vignaux’s secular realism......Page 60
Epistemological Tracks: On Religion, Words, and Buildings in 1950’s Belgium......Page 86
When Personalism Met Planning: Jacques Maritain and a British Christian Intellectual Circle, 1937 – 1949......Page 109
Part II. Encountering Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Aesthetics......Page 144
Neo-Scholasticism, Phenomenology, and the Problem of Conversion......Page 149
A Great Deal of Controversy? A Case Study of Dondeyne, Grégoire, and Moeller Integrating Phenomenology and Existentialism in Louvain Neo-Thomism......Page 173
Gilson’s Poietics......Page 206
Part III. Reconciling Science and Religion......Page 231
Psychology from a Neo-Thomist Perspective. The Louvain-Madrid Connection.......Page 234
Science contra Science. The Battle for Legitimate Knowledge in the Spanish Catholic Journals in the Early Twentieth Century......Page 266
Part IV. Mediating Tradition......Page 296
The Analogy of Marshall McLuhan......Page 299
Vetera Novis Augere: Neo-Scholastic Philosophers and Their Concepts of Tradition......Page 329
Thomas Aquinas or John Henry Newman? The Intellectual Itinerary of Johannes Willebrands......Page 360
About the Authors......Page 386
Index of Persons......Page 392

✦ Subjects

Scholoasticism, Neo-Thomism