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Qui sont les antimodernes ? Non pas les conservateurs, les académiques, les frileux, les pompiers, les réactionnaires, mais les modernes à contre-cur, malgré eux, à leur corps défendant, ceux qui avancent en regardant dans le rétroviseur, comme Sartre disait de Baudelaire. Ce livre poursuit le filon de la résistance à la modernité qui traverse toute la modernité et qui en quelque manière la définit, en la distinguant d'un modernisme naïf, zélateur du progrès. Une première partie explore quelques grands thèmes caractéristiques du courant antimoderne aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Ces idées fixes sont au nombre de six : historique, la contre-révolution ; philosophique, les anti-Lumières ; morale, le pessimisme ; religieuse, le péché originel ; esthétique, le sublime ; et stylistique, la vitupération. Joseph de Maistre, Chateaubriand, Baudelaire, Flaubert d'un côté, de l'autre Proust, Caillois ou Cioran servent à dégager ces traits idéaux.Une seconde partie examine quelques grandes figures antimodernes aux XIXe et XXe siècles ou, plutôt, quelques configurations antimodernes majeures : Lacordaire, Léon Bloy, Péguy, Albert Thibaudet et Julien Benda, Julien Gracq et, enfin, Roland Barthes, « à l'arrière-garde de l'avant-garde », comme il aimait se situer. Entre les thèmes et les figures, des variations apparaissent, mais les antimodernes ont été le sel de la modernité, son revers ou son repli, sa réserve et sa ressource. Sans l'antimoderne, le moderne courait à sa perte, car les antimodernes ont donné la liberté aux modernes, ils ont été les modernes plus la liberté. Prix de la Critique de l'Académie française 2006

Conservatism and literature --- French literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- History and criticism.

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During the Cold War an unlikely coalition of poets, editors, and politicians converged in an attempt to discredit--if not destroy--the American modernist avant-garde. Ideologically diverse yet willing to bespeak their hatred of modern poetry through the rhetoric of anticommunism, these ""anticommunist antimodernists,"" as Alan Filreis dubs them, joined associations such as the League for Sanity in Poetry to decry the modernist ""conspiracy"" against form and language. In Counter-revolution of the Word Filreis narrates the story of this movement and assesses its effect on American poetry

Modernism (Literature) --- American poetry --- Conservatism and literature --- Politics and literature --- Literature and conservatism --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- History

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merging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing the rise of radical ideologies abroad, the American Right seemed beaten, broken, and adrift in the early 1950s. Although conservative luminaries such as T. S. Eliot, William F. Buckley Jr., Leo Strauss, and Eric Voegelin all published important works at this time, none of their writings would match the influence of Russell Kirk's 1953 masterpiece The Conservative Mind. This seminal book became the intellectual touchstone for a reinvigorated movement and began a sea change in Americans' attitudes toward traditionalism. In Russell Kirk, Bradley J. Birzer investigates the life and work of the man known as the founder of postwar conservatism in America. Drawing on papers and diaries that have only recently become available to the public, Birzer presents a thorough exploration of Kirk's intellectual roots and development. The first to examine the theorist's prolific writings on literature and culture, this magisterial study illuminates Kirk's lasting influence on figures such as T. S. Eliot, William F. Buckley Jr., and Senator Barry Goldwater--who persuaded a reluctant Kirk to participate in his campaign for the presidency in 1964. While several books examine the evolution of postwar conservatism and libertarianism, surprisingly few works explore Kirk's life and thought in detail. This engaging biography not only offers a fresh and thorough assessment of one of America's most influential thinkers but also reasserts his humane vision in an increasingly inhumane time.

Conservatism --- History --- Kirk, Russell. --- Authors, American --- Conservatism and literature --- Intellectuals --- College teachers --- Literature and conservatism --- Literature --- Kirk, Russell Amos --- Conservatives --- United States --- Biography --- 20th century

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