Thomas R Nevin: 6 books

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Ernst Jünger and Germany

Into the Abyss, 1914-1945

by Thomas R. Nevin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012

For most of his life, Ernst Jünger, one of Europe's leading twentieth-century writers, has been controversial. Renowned as a soldier who wrote of his experience in the First World War, he has maintained a remarkable writing career that has spanned five periods of modern German history. In this first...
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The Last Years of Saint Thérèse

Doubt and Darkness, 1895-1897

by Thomas R. Nevin
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013

For over a century, the Carmelite Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (1873-1897) has been revered as Catholicism's foremost folk saint of modern times. Universally known as "the Little Flower," she has been a source of consolation and uplift, an example of everyday sainthood by...
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Simone Weil

Portrait of a Self-exiled Jew

by Thomas R. Nevin
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

Over fifty years after her death, Simone Weil (1909-1943) remains one of the most searching religious inquirers and political thinkers of the twentieth century. Albert Camus said she had a "madness for truth." She rejected her Jewishness and developed a strong interest in Catholicism, although...
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Irving Babbitt

An Intellectual Study

by Thomas R. Nevin
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018

Few men in America's intellectual history have sought as much as Irving Babbitt to be a crucible for the cultural values that America, expecially in its "progressive" epoch, had no inclination to receive. Over sixty years after his death, Babbitt remains a figure of controversy. He retains...
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Therese of Lisieux

God's Gentle Warrior

by Thomas R. Nevin
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006

Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897), also known as St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, is popularly named the Little Flower. A Carmelite nun, doctor of the church, and patron of a score of causes, she was famously acclaimed by Pope Pius X as the greatest saint of modern times. Thérèse is...
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Nietzsche's Protestant Fathers

A Study in Prodigal Christianity

by Thomas R. Nevin
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018

Nietzsche was famously an atheist, despite coming from a strongly Protestant family. This heritage influenced much of his thought, but was it in fact the very thing that led him to his atheism? This work provides a radical re-assessment of Protestantism by documenting and extrapolating Nietzsche’s...
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