Matthew Maguire

I have devoted my research and writing to modern European intellectual history. My recently completed book deals with early twentieth-century European intellectual culture, above all as a multi-dimensional exchange of arguments and aspirations drawn from Christianity, Judaism, and modern Continental philosophy. My first book was entitled The Conversion of Imagination. It explored how an important tradition in modern philosophy, cultural reflection, and literature identifies imagination as a preeminent faculty to account for and work through theological, philosophical, psychological, political, and moral questions. My ongoing projects explore the cultural and intellectual history of modern Europe, with special attention to the relationships between and among religion, philosophy, literature, and politics.