Word: maritains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France came out last November; by last week 17 others had been added to Crespin's list. Best-sellers are the Maurois book, 15,000 copies; Jules Romains's rather naive Sept Mystères du Destin de l'Europe, 9,000; Jacques Maritain's A Travers le Désastre, 8,000; Robert Coffin's Le Roi des Beiges, atil Trahi?, 4,000. Scheduled for publication soon are books by Maritain (on Saint Paul), Emil Ludwig (on German history), Stefan Zweig (on Brazil). He has published new novels by Romains and Julian Green...
...Maritain solemnly declares: "A political ideal of brotherly love alone can direct the work of authentic social regeneration. . . . Martyrs to the love of neighbor may first be necessary...
...book relates the disintegration of humanistic Christianity to the world's social woes. "When we consider the frightful panorama of the nations," sighs Maritain, "we feel . . . that spirit is humiliated today in an extraordinarily profound manner." Medieval philosophy sought to alleviate inhumanity and injustice by establishing a basic principle of "a love which fixes the centre of [man's] life infinitely above the world and temporal history." But in the last 400 years philosophers have dropped their eyes from God, fixed them on man. Three influences are largely to blame...
...Modern civilization." explains Maritain, "pays dearly today for the past." Marx, Nietzsche, Freud have "unmasked" the rational, optimistic bourgeois citizen. Social disorders threaten to engulf him, mocking his errant faith in Progress and Enlightenment...
...Maritain is pessimistic about patching up this mischief, sees no hope except in "a new temporal order inspired by Christianity." Man's basic need, he says, is a return to the "integral humanism" of Aquinas, a new philosophy of the person. Maritain's new society would be democratic, but would frighten good bourgeois citizens...