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Heretics - A Brilliant and Provocative Challenge to the Ideas Shaping the Modern World
Hardcover
PhilosophyGeneral Christianity
ISBN13: 9781604591637
Publisher: Sublime Books
Published: Jan 2 2008
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
With wit, paradox, and intellectual ferocity, G. K. Chesterton takes aim at the celebrated thinkers and fashionable ideas of his age.
In Heretics, Chesterton argues that modern society has become suspicious of conviction itself. People readily debate politics, art, economics, and social reform, yet hesitate to examine the deeper beliefs that shape their judgments. For Chesterton, every opinion ultimately rests upon a philosophy of life, whether acknowledged or not.
Across twenty essays, he challenges influential figures including George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, and Friedrich Nietzsche. He confronts materialism, pessimism, relativism, Social Darwinism, and the worship of progress while defending wonder, moral certainty, imagination, and the need for a coherent view of human nature.
Chesterton's arguments are combative but rarely solemn. He uses humor, exaggeration, and apparent contradiction to expose what he sees as the hidden assumptions and internal weaknesses of modern thought. His essays move freely between literature, politics, religion, philosophy, and everyday life, turning abstract debate into lively and memorable prose.
First published in 1905, Heretics prepared the ground for Chesterton's later spiritual classic Orthodoxy. Provocative, entertaining, and still capable of unsettling readers, it remains one of his most important works of cultural criticism and Christian apologetics.
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