"The Pagan School" (French: L'École païenne) is an essay by the French writer Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1852, it is critical of the neopaganism of its time, which existed in explicit form among supporters of the French Revolution of 1848. From this starting point, Baudelaire criticised a broader trend of striving for material beauty and sensory pleasure, which he said would leave people unsatisfied and make it hard to maintain relationships. He argued in opposition of art that is visually pleasing and called for art and literature that is ugly, comical and attuned to science and philosophy.
"The Pagan School" is in line with Baudelaire's aversion to pantheistic views and contains a specifically modern rejection of classicism. It addresses the modern idea of the god Pan as an embodiment of revolutionary momentum, which Baudelaire viewed as artificial. The essay has been interpreted in relation to the art for art's sake movement, modern iconoclasm and the connections between religion, art and politics.
"ThePaganSchool" (French: L'École païenne) is an essay by the French writer Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1852, it is critical of the neopaganism...
Africa and the Near East. Although they share similarities, contemporary pagan movements are diverse and as a result, they do not share a single set of...
2020. Pagan attended Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, Western Michigan University and The George Washington University. After working in the Washington...
went on to last until the end of the last remaining paganschool of Platonism in Alexandria which was brought on by the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641...
Origen thePagan (Greek: Ὠριγένης; fl. early 3rd century) was a Platonist philosopher who lived in Alexandria. He was a student of Ammonius Saccas and...
of the Byzantine Empire, after Justinian's Decree of 529 AD which closed Plato's Academy in Athens and other paganschools. Olympiodorus was the last...
formerly Pagan) is an ancient city and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital...
engineer for the Hay Shire. He began his education at a local public school and then boarded at St Peter's College, Adelaide. Pagan joined the Militia in...
Virtuous pagan is a concept in Christian theology that addressed the fate of the unlearned—the issue of nonbelievers who were never evangelized and consequently...
Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire began during the reign of Constantine the Great (r. 306–337) in the military colony of Aelia Capitolina...
Oberon Zell Ravenheart in 2004. She is the executive director of Ardantane, a non-profit Wiccan and paganschool and seminary in northern New Mexico. Amber...
The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals, observed by a range of modern pagans, marking the year's chief solar events (solstices...
persecution, and the military conquest of pagan peoples; the Christianization of Lithuania in the 15th century is typically considered to mark the end of this...
by or derived from the various historical pagan beliefs of pre-modern peoples. Although they share similarities, contemporary pagan religious movements...
Hugues Pagan (born 1947) is a French detective writer and television writer. Hugues Pagan was born in 1947 in Orléansville, French Algeria (now Algeria)...
Confessor and John of Damascus, as well as early paganschools of philosophy such as Stoicism. The moral guidelines set down by Roman Catholic magisterial...
witchcraft, sometimes referred to as The Craft, is an umbrella term for some neo-pagan traditions that include the practice of magic (also spelled 'magick')...
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