• Jason Baxter on Loving Modernity as a Medievalist

  • Dec 12 2024
  • Durée: 1 h et 2 min
  • Podcast

Jason Baxter on Loving Modernity as a Medievalist

  • Résumé

  • “The air of Narnia had been working upon him … and all his old battles came back to him, and his arms and fingers remembered their old skill. He was King Edmund once more.”

    In this week’s wide-ranging discussion, Dr. Jason Baxter talks about fellow Medievalist C. S. Lewis’s ideas of story and history—and how those ideas matter for the education and formation of a thoroughly modern people. What can today’s “classical revival movements” learn from Lewis?

    Chapters:

    3:56 C. S. Lewis’s library

    6:31 His theory of stories: mining ancient jewels

    14:49 His theory of history: a post-Christian world

    17:14 Modern man’s trouble with pre-modern texts

    20:09 Embracing modernity and tradition

    25:45 Making virtue attractive

    33:49 How to “teach” a passion

    42:45 Why a new translation of Dante

    49:51 Wounded by beauty

    Links:

    jasonmbaxter.com featuring articles and lectures

    Beauty Matters, Substack for Jason Baxter

    The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind by Jason Baxter

    The Divine Comedy: Inferno translated by Jason Baxter

    Center for Beauty and Culture at Benedictine College

    Also on the Forum:

    A Doctor, a Lawyer, and a Cop Walk into a Boys School, episode two of Heights Forum Faculty Podcast

    What Fiction Is For featuring Joe Breslin

    Inferno or Paradiso? On Introducing Students to the Divine Comedy featuring Jason Baxter

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