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Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War

Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War

Stuart, Joseph T.

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ISBN10: 0813234573
ISBN13: 9780813234571
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: Jun 9 2022
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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. His focus on culture prefigured its importance in Catholicism since Vatican Council II and in the rise of mainstream cultural history in the late twentieth century. How did Dawson think about culture and why does it matter? 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's multilayered approach to culture, instantiating John Henry Newman's philosophical habit of mind, is key to his work and its relevance. By it, he responded to the cultural fragmentation he sensed after the Great War (1914-1918).

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