Moderne und Antimoderne: Der Renouveau catholique und die deutsche Literatur. Beitrage des Heidelberger Colloquiums vom 12. bis 16 September 2006

Horrified by the notion (popularized by the contemporary chemist Marcellin Berthelot) that "today's world is without mystery," many Catholic writers on both sides of the Rhine bemoaned the attendant loss of creative freedom, the erosion of society's metaphysical roots, and the crumbling of its religious foundations (p. 1 18). A translator of Renouveau texts from a number of French authors, Franz Blei saw in the Catholic faith the power to foster connectivity in an otherwise chaotic time (p. 209).