Henry Mead
Biographic Data
| ID | 3891125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henry Mead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henry |
| FAMILY NAME | Mead |
| SIGNATURE | MEAD H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tallinn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6599-7142 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Regeneration of Society”
The article examines T. E. Hulme's reading of Georges Sorel as a politically transversal thinker of moral renewal. It argues that, by distancing Sorel from syndicalism and by reading him as a thinker of moral absolutes, this interpretation constituted an act of resignification. This is shown by contrasting Hulme's reading with the dominant patterns of the British reception of Sorel. What emerges is the striking, and self-aware, originality of Hul…
The typewriter mind
Recent commentaries on the resurgence of populist nationalism have referred back to the early twentieth century. Such analogies are criticised by scholarly historians, but in a frame of post-humanist theory, the very method of comparison recalls early modernist treatments of political and historical language as essentially metaphoric and fictive. The essay focuses on T.E. Hulme's writing, drawing attention to three challenges to humanism describe…
Edwardian Intellectuals and Political Religions
Historians of fascism trace elements of its ‘sacralised politics’ to left‐wing religiosity at the turn of the century. Emilio Gentile has provided detailed criteria to distinguish ‘political religion’ from ‘civil religion’ and ‘politicised religion’ from ‘religion as politics’. This paper tries to apply this taxonomy to late Victorian and Edwardian socialism in Britain. Intellectual arguments for a ‘religion of socialism’– as well as less‐theoris…
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Edwardian Intellectuals and Political Religions
Historians of fascism trace elements of its ‘sacralised politics’ to left‐wing religiosity at the turn of the century. Emilio Gentile has provided detailed criteria to distinguish ‘political religion’ from ‘civil religion’ and ‘politicised religion’ from ‘religion as politics’. This paper tries to apply this taxonomy to late Victorian and Edwardian socialism in Britain. Intellectual arguments for a ‘religion of socialism’– as well as less‐theoris…
The typewriter mind
Recent commentaries on the resurgence of populist nationalism have referred back to the early twentieth century. Such analogies are criticised by scholarly historians, but in a frame of post-humanist theory, the very method of comparison recalls early modernist treatments of political and historical language as essentially metaphoric and fictive. The essay focuses on T.E. Hulme's writing, drawing attention to three challenges to humanism describe…
The Regeneration of Society”
The article examines T. E. Hulme's reading of Georges Sorel as a politically transversal thinker of moral renewal. It argues that, by distancing Sorel from syndicalism and by reading him as a thinker of moral absolutes, this interpretation constituted an act of resignification. This is shown by contrasting Hulme's reading with the dominant patterns of the British reception of Sorel. What emerges is the striking, and self-aware, originality of Hul…
Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Australian History and Society (1 works) · Charisma (1 works)