Heretics

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• Publisher: The Big Nest
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781910660171
• Edition: 0

Chesterton describes his understanding of the words Orthodox and Heretic as they apply to, and have changed in, the modern period. Chesterton argues that in modernity, the word orthodoxy not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong. He continues to write that society no longer tolerates a man's life philosophy or religion, yet is increasingly absorbed in art for art's sake.

Table of contents

• I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ORTHODOXY
• II. ON THE NEGATIVE SPIRIT
• III. ON MR. RUDYARD KIPLING AND MAKING THE WORLD SMALL
• IV. MR. BERNARD SHAW
• V. MR. H.G. WELLS AND THE GIANTS
• VI. CHRISTMAS AND THE AESTHETES
• VII. OMAR AND THE SACRED VINE
• VIII. THE MILDNESS OF THE YELLOW PRESS
• IX. THE MOODS OF MR. GEORGE MOORE
• X. ON SANDALS AND SIMPLICITY
• XI. SCIENCE AND THE SAVAGES
• XII. PAGANISM AND MR. LOWES DICKINSON
• XIII. CELTS AND CELTOPHILES
• XIV. ON CERTAIN MODERN WRITERS
• XV. ON SMART NOVELISTS AND THE SMART SET
• XVI. ON MR. MCCABE AND A DIVINE FRIVOLITY
• XVII. ON THE WIT OF WHISTLER
• XVIII. THE FALLACY OF THE YOUNG NATION
• XIX. SLUM NOVELISTS AND THE SLUMS
• XX. CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ORTHODOXY