Heretics (book)
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Heretics is a collection of 20 essays by G. K. Chesterton and published by John Lane in 1905.[1] While the loci of the chapters of Heretics are personalities, the topics he debates are as universal to the "vague moderns" of the 21st century as they were to those of the 20th. He quotes at length and argues extensively against atheist Joseph McCabe, delivers diatribes about his close personal friend and intellectual rival, George Bernard Shaw, as well as Friedrich Nietzsche, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling and an array of other major intellectuals of his day, many of whom he knew personally. The topics he touches upon range from cosmology to anthropology to soteriology and he argues against French nihilism, German humanism, English utilitarianism, the syncretism of "the vague modern", Social Darwinism, eugenics and the arrogance and misanthropy of the European intelligentsia. Together with Orthodoxy, this book is regarded as central to his corpus of moral theology.
Chapters[]
- Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy
- On the Negative Spirit
- On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small
- Mr. Bernard Shaw
- Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants
- Christmas and the Esthetes
- Omar and the Sacred Vine
- The Mildness of the Yellow Press
- The Moods of Mr. George Moore
- On Sandals and Simplicity
- Science and the Savages
- Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson
- Celts and Celtophiles
- On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family
- On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set
- On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity
- On the Wit of Whistler
- The Fallacy of the Young Nation
- Slum Novelists and the Slums
- Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Pearce, Joseph (2006). Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief. Ignatius Press. p. xi. ISBN 1586171593.
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- 1905 non-fiction books
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- Books of literary criticism
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