Word: rougemont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denis de Rougemont is Switzerland's brilliant Protestant discourser on religious and ethical problems (Love in the West ern World, The Devil's Share}. Back in the U.S. from his first postwar trip to Europe, he reports (in the current issue of Christendom) a new surge of interest in Christian liturgy...
Even the Protestants of Switzerland had something to paste in their books. The day before the canonization, fashionable Rome turned out to hear the municipally supported Academia de Santa Cecilia sing the oratorio, Nicolas de Flue-words by Swiss Protestant Denis de Rougemont, music by Swiss Protestant Arthur Honegger...
...largely organized by Marcel Raymond, a Geneva university professor, and Swiss Musician Ernst-Alexandre Ansermet. Present were delegates from France (Catholic Writer Georges Bernanos, Socialist Writer Jean Guéhenno), Italy (Socialist Novelist Ignazio Silone), Hungary (Marxist Critic George Lukacs), Germany (Existentialist Karl Jaspers), Switzerland (Philosopher Denis de Rougemont), Britain (Poet Stephen Spender) and others...
LOVE IN THE WESTERN WORLD-Denis de Rougemont-Harcourt, Brace...
Thus having spoken, De Rougemont flogs the daylights out of contemporary conceptions of marriage, of happiness, of romantic love. In a last chapter whose eloquence becomes all but desperate, he expounds his personal solution : a marriage in which fidelity is observed neither for love, money nor hope of inner reward but "by virtue of the absurd," that is, by virtue alone of having taken oath to it. Right or raving, De Rougemont's reasoning is often ingenious, always arresting, fascinating in detail...