Heretics (1905)
Heretics is a 1905 criticism book written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
G. K. Chesterton picks fights on purpose. In these twenty essays from 1905 he takes on the reigning thinkers of his day, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Nietzsche and the fashionable skeptics, and argues that their grand modern ideas rest on shaky foundations. The title is a joke with a point: to Chesterton a heretic is anyone confident in a philosophy he has not examined. The tone stays cheerful and pugnacious, the paradoxes fly, and his affection for his rivals shows even as he dismantles them. It serves as a companion to his later Orthodoxy.
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G. K. Chesterton picks fights on purpose. In these twenty essays from 1905 he takes on the reigning thinkers of his day, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Nietzsche and the fashionable skeptics, and argues that their grand modern ideas rest on shaky foundations. The title is a joke with a point: to Chesterton a heretic is anyone confident in a philosophy he has not examined. The tone stays cheerful and pugnacious, the paradoxes fly, and his affection for his rivals shows even as he dismantles them. It serves as a companion to his later Orthodoxy.
When was Heretics published?
Heretics was published in 1905.
Who made Heretics?
Heretics was written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton's delight in paradox and moral argument carries into the screen adaptations of his fiction. The long-running BBC series Father Brown, built from his detective stories, keeps that same genial, unfashionable wit.