Henry Mead

• Tallinn University

The article examines T. E. Hulme's reading of Georges Sorel as a politically transversal thinker of moral renewal. It argues that, by distancing Sorel from syndicalism and by reading him as a thinker of moral absolutes, this interpretation constituted an act of resignification. This is shown by contrasting Hulme's reading with the dominant patterns...

Recent commentaries on the resurgence of populist nationalism have referred back to the early twentieth century. Such analogies are criticised by scholarly historians, but in a frame of post-humanist theory, the very method of comparison recalls early modernist treatments of political and historical language as essentially metaphoric and fictive. T...

This project provides critical readings of individual sections of The Cantos of Ezra Pound written by prominent Pound scholars who combine critical insight with useful information about sources and contexts. Focused around a generous selection of the most important Cantos, this book provides a vital introduction for new readers of The Cantos and a...

Drawing on a range of archival materials, this book explores the writing career of the poet, philosopher, art critic, and political commentator T. E. Hulme, a key figure in British modernism. T. E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism reveals for the first time the full extent of Hulme’s relationship with New Age, a leading radical...

Historians of fascism trace elements of its ‘sacralised politics’ to left-wing religiosity at the turn of the century. Emilio Gentile has provided detailed criteria to distinguish ‘political religion’ from ‘civil religion’ and ‘politicised religion’ from ‘religion as politics’. This paper tries to apply this taxonomy to late Victorian and Edwardian...

This essay asks if the reception of Bergsonian philosophy in the journalism of T.E. Hulme might provide formulae to analyse contemporary ideology. For a short time, writers across the political spectrum adopted Bergson's philosophy to attack liberal positivism. Despite his instinctive conservatism, Hulme's earliest pieces on Bergson echo the vitali...