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Reading Mill and Forster in Church: Liberal and Hauerwasian Ethics in Conversation
Abstract
Throughout his theological career Stanley Hauerwas has struggled to maintain a demarcation between liberal and Christian ethics. Is such a separation theologically defensible? In an effort to deconstruct Hauerwas’s hostility to liberalism through Hauerwasian categories, the following article examines areas of resemblance between liberal and Hauerwasian ethics. Through a comparative reading of the liberalisms of J. S. Mill (1806–1873) and E. M. Forster (1879–1970), the following argument retrieves a neglected form of liberal politics which in many respects conforms to the structure of Hauerwas’s radical description of Christian discipleship. Instead of understanding the Church as an isolated colony embattled against non-Christian culture, Mill and Forster challenge Hauerwas to consider the liberal polity as both the child and responsibility of the Church.
E. M. Forster studies are a remarkably vibrant field of literary studies with dozens of books, papers, and articles published every year. There were 68 publications in 2020 alone, with at least 59 more already appearing in 2021. Their number and variety, however, are difficult to embrace as up to now there has been no single comprehensive source which would include if not all (as this seems hardly possible), then at least a majority of them. Even the best available online resources include only a fraction of the existing works. Those which appear in renowned journals or are published by distinguished publishing houses are usually easy to find, although locating Forster-related chapters in monographs is not quite as simple. However, there are hundreds of others the discovery of which requires much more effort, especially when they appear outside the anglophone academia or only in print. The purpose of the present publication is to make the task somewhat less arduous.
The aim of the present project is to include all Forster-related scholarly publications which were not presented in McDowell's bibliography. The earliest of the publications included here appeared in 1973, the most recent are scheduled to appear in 2022. Consequently, the present bibliography covers the period of fifty years and includes 1648 entries, a little less than the 1913 entries McDowell included for the period 1905-1975. However, the focus here is somewhat different , the present bibliography includes only published academic texts, there are no unpublished PhD theses, book reviews, or popular press articles. Polish Journal of English Studies 7.2 (2021): 194-313.
Special issue of the PJES dedicated to E. M. Forster List of Contents “The Hotel Case”Queering the Hotel in E. M. Forster’s “Arthur Snatchfold” Athanasios Dimakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 “Where Is Your Home”? Spaces of Homoerotic Desire in E. M. Forster’s Fiction Dominika Kotuła, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn 25 “Áh yoù sílly àss, góds lìve in woóds!” Queer appropriations of Edwardian Classicism in Forster’s short fiction and Maurice Claire Braunstein Barnes, University of Oxford 42 “Old things belonging to the nation”: Forster, Antiquities and the Queer Museum Richard Bruce Parkinson, University of Oxford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 Towards Forsterian Mobilities through Public Transport as Public Space Jason Finch, Åbo Akademi University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 Politics and Poetics of Mobility: Gender, Motion, and Stasis in E. M. Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread Hager Ben Driss, University of Tunis 90 Shaping the Culture of Tolerance: A Study of Forster’s Humanism in Howard’s End and A Passage to India Afrinul Haque Khan, Nirmala College, Ranchi University, Ranchi, India 106 Speaking through “the Wearisome Machine”: E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” Elif Derya Şenduran, Independent Scholar 123 Forster and Adaptation: Across Time, Media and Methodologies Claire Monk, De Montfort University, UK 139 Guilty Style: Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts and E.M. Forster’s Legacy in the Age of Autofiction Niklas Cyril Fischer, University of Fribourg, Switzerland 176 E. M. Forster: A Bibliography of Critical Studies Krzysztof Fordoński, University of Warsaw 194 Michelle Fillion, 2010. Difficult Rhythm: Music and the Word in E. M. Forster Iryna Nakonechna, University of Stirling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .314 Tsung-Han Tsai, 2021. E. M. Forster and Music Parker T. Gordon, University of St Andrews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 Krzysztof Fordoński, Anna Kwiatkowska, Paweł Wojtas, Heiko Zimmermann (eds.), 2020. Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw No. 10 Elif Derya Şenduran, Independent Scholar 321 Sara Sass, 2021. There Are Some Secrets. Anna Kwiatkowska, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .327 José A. Lemos de Souza, José A. 2021. Sobre o Espaço em Howards End: a Reescrita do romance de E.M.Forster no cinema. Wendell Ramos Maia, University of Brasília 329 E. M. Forster – Shaping the Space of Culture. Conference Report Anna Kwiatkowska, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .334
Recent election results across the Western world have seen the resurgence of authoritarian and nativist forms of politics. Key shibboleths of liberal democracy have come under fierce attack from burgeoning populist movements. Calls for a return to homogenous national identities and firm lines of cultural belonging increasingly eclipse values of social openness, pluralism and multiculturalism. In such a febrile atmosphere, it might be legitimate to ask, is Western liberalism in a state of decay? And if so, how should Christian communities respond to such a development? Drawing constructively on the work of Karl Barth and E.M Forster, this article argues that the fragmentation of liberal values risks making secular culture less receptive to the distinctive summons of the Christian message. Chiefly imperilled by such disintegration is the pedagogical capacity of political liberalism to sensitise otherwise secular citizens to notions of universal community, which lie at the centre of the Gospel’s subversive social imaginary. In a world where ‘nation’ and ‘ethnicity’ are again compelling rivals for the West’s civic affections, liberal politics must recover a public creed which grounds the language of liberty in a robust account of community, friendship and care.
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