Men Wanted! [Series Title: Harpers Monthly Pulpit]
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- New York: Harper and Brothers, 1933
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1933. First Edition. First printing. 12mo. Slate-blue paper-covered boards with printed foil spine label; dustjacket; xv,85,(3). Straight and tight, with sun-fading to boards at spine and extremities. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.00 on front flap), rubbed and toned with a few small stains and scuffs; just VG. Issued in Harper's "Monthly Pulpit" series.
A collection of sermons delivered to American undergraduates by Bernard Iddings Bell (1886-1958), among the most influential American conservative intellectuals between the wars. Bell, an Episcopal priest and President of Bard College (then called St. Stephens) from 1919 to 1933, is sometimes credited with inventing the term "postmodernism;" he was in fact a staunch anti-modernist who exemplified a strain of ahistorical religious reaction that probably helped to solidify rather than discourage the materialist agnosticism that would come to characterize post-War American intellectual life. The current collection of ten sermons hits repeatedly on Bell's standard theme – the many failures of modernism, including "moral cowardice, a cynical cruelty, a decay of honesty, a tolerance of lies, and...that whining self-pity which is a dominant note in modern thought, and especially in the attitude of many modern young people..." [from the Preface]. Surprisingly uncommon, with none traced in the current marketplace; though well-represented in American institutions, most copies are in circulating collections.
A collection of sermons delivered to American undergraduates by Bernard Iddings Bell (1886-1958), among the most influential American conservative intellectuals between the wars. Bell, an Episcopal priest and President of Bard College (then called St. Stephens) from 1919 to 1933, is sometimes credited with inventing the term "postmodernism;" he was in fact a staunch anti-modernist who exemplified a strain of ahistorical religious reaction that probably helped to solidify rather than discourage the materialist agnosticism that would come to characterize post-War American intellectual life. The current collection of ten sermons hits repeatedly on Bell's standard theme – the many failures of modernism, including "moral cowardice, a cynical cruelty, a decay of honesty, a tolerance of lies, and...that whining self-pity which is a dominant note in modern thought, and especially in the attitude of many modern young people..." [from the Preface]. Surprisingly uncommon, with none traced in the current marketplace; though well-represented in American institutions, most copies are in circulating collections.