{"product_id":"the-imagination-of-maurice-barres-9781487579043","title":"The Imagination of Maurice Barres","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe power of imagination to construct those mythos which alone, according to Barres, give sense and value to our absurd existence and by which, above all, men are moved to believe and act, was at the centre of his life-long preoccupation with the art of arousing and directing spiritual energy in individuals and groups. This preoccupation appears in every context of his varied career—as novelist, essayist, journalist, orator, self-conscious Egotist, Romantic traveller, anti-Dreyfusard, religious syncretist and pragmatist, and, with Charles Maurras, one of the most influential founders and exponents of modern French nationalism. His great originality among French political writers of the twentieth century is to have consciously applied Baudelaire’s ‘Queen of Faculties’ and the insights of post-Baudelairian Symbolism to the enterprise of committed literature, using a ‘picturesque and musical’ language of persuasion, ‘without logic-chopping,","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187730211159,"sku":"9781487579043","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-imagination-of-maurice-barres-9781487579043","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}