Modernism

An essay by medieval scholar Nicholas Babich explores works by priest and novelist Robert Hugh Benson that have been eclipsed by his more popular Lord of the World. Ken Myers presents an unabridged reading of Babich’s essay. (30 minutes)

John Patrick Diggins discusses themes in two of his books: The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority (1994) and Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy (1996). (27 minutes)

FEATURED GUESTS: Stratford Caldecott, Fred Bahnson, Eric O. Jacobsen, J. Budziszewski, Brian Brock, and Allen Verhey

Suzi Gablik looks at how modern and postmodern artists have struggled with living in modern and postmodern societies in which there is no public vocabulary for the sacred.

FROM VOL. 10Martha Bayles describes the development of “introverted” modernism, a movement that disconnected art from any accountability to reality, preferring to celebrate art for art’s sake. (12 minutes)