Orage and the New Age
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This history of the iconic early-20th-century journal New Age and its editor, A. R. Orage, presents an overview of the development of social thought during this period. Key thinkers including Hilaire Belloc, G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, and George Bernard Shaw were among the writers published in the New Age, as was Friedrich Nietzsche, in his first introduction to the British public. The political, social, and literary writing included in the journal also illustrates the personal tensions in Orage's life as he probed the nature of his own spiritual fulfillment by connecting it to national and social liberation. Of particular interest are Dr. Taylor's chapters on the relationship of Orage to Penty, on their mutual interest in the guilds theory and movement, and on Orage's later interest in Social Credit and related theories. Essential background reading for those wishing to be acquainted with the context in which the Catholic Distributists were able to test, refine, and hammer out their own ideas.
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Gary Taylor
Gary Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at Sheffield Hallam University. He has been teaching higher education for fifteen years, and has published a number of books and articles on social and political theory, the media, and social policy. These also constitute his main research interests He is currently working on a number of projects on citizenship including ones that focus on the broader implications of widening participation, the importance of community engagement and student perspectives on politics. His most recent book is Ideology and Welfare.
