Sacred Dread : Raïssa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the French Catholic Revival (1905-1944) /

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In early twentieth-century France, a vast network of artists, writers, and religious seekers were drawn to Roman Catholicism's elaborate panoply of symbols centered on suffering. A preoccupation with affliction dominated the movement now known as the French Catholic revival, or the renouveau ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moore, Brenna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Maritain, Raïssa.
Catholic Church.
Église catholique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Catholic Church > France > History > 20th century.
Suffering > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Intellectual life.
Authors, French.
Écrivains français > 20e siecle > Biographies.
Authors, French > 20th century > Biography.
France.
France > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle.
France > Intellectual life > 20th century.
History
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Vicarious Suffering, Its Interpretive Limits, and Raïssa Maritain's Work
  • That "Strange Thing, So Unknown to Us - Catholicism" : Steps to Conversion (1900-1906)
  • "She Who Weeps" : Feminized Suffering in the Thought of Léon Bloy and the Maritains (1906-35)
  • Building a New Tribe in the Gathering Storm : Raïssa Maritian the Complexity of Interwar Philo-Semitism (1923-39)
  • Poetry "in the Storm of Life" : Art, Mysticism, and Politics at Meudon (1931-39)
  • Holy Suffering, Memory, and the Irredeemable Present : Raïssa Maritain in Exile (1940-44)
  • Conclusion : Raïssa Maritain's Posthumous Presence and the Allure of Suffering Reconsidered.

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