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Author Stuart, Joseph T., author

Title Christopher Dawson : a cultural mind in the age of the Great War / Joseph T. Stuart
Published Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 454 pages) : portrait
Contents Formation of A Cultural Mind -- The Culture Idea and the Great War -- Sociology -- History (I) -- History (II) -- Comparative Religion -- Application of A Cultural Mind -- The Expansion of Politics -- The Containment of Politics -- Education -- Conclusion: Recovery of a Cultural Mind
Summary "The English historian Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) was the first Catholic Studies professor at Harvard University and has been described as one of the foremost Catholic thinkers of modern times. Joseph T. Stuart argues that through Dawson's study of world cultures, he acquired a "cultural mind" by which he attempted to integrate knowledge according to four implicit rules: intellectual architecture, boundary thinking, intellectual asceticism, and intellectual bridges. Dawson responded to the cultural fragmentation after the Great War (1914-1918) through this multilayered approach to culture, which was an instantiation of John Henry Newman's philosophical habit of mind. Stuart demonstrates how Dawson formed his cultural mind practicing an interdisciplinary science of culture involving anthropology, sociology, history, and comparative religion, and applied his cultural thinking to problems in politics and education"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 17, 2022)
Subject Dawson, Christopher, 1889-1970 -- Criticism and interpretation
Dawson, Christopher, 1889-1970.
SUBJECT Dawson, Christopher, 1889-1970
Dawson, Christopher, 1889-1970 -- Criticism and interpretation
Dawson, Christopher, 1889-1970 fast
Subject Historians -- Great Britain -- Biography
Christian civilization.
Christianity and culture.
Civilization, Western.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence
Catholic historians -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
Catholic historians
Christian civilization
Christianity and culture
Civilization, Western
Historians
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022006583
ISBN 0813234581
9780813234588