Philosophising in a Neutral Country:A study on the reflections of the dutch catholic intellectuals involved in the periodical de beiaard, regarding the first world war and its outcome

The Netherlands remained neutral during the First World War. For this reason, the impact of the war on this country was neglected for a long time. However, in the last decades, the way the war affected the Netherlands has been studied in more detail. Still, the cultural impact of the war has received only little attention. Therefore, this article studies the way in which a group of Catholic intellectuals, involved with the cultural journal De Beiaard, reflected on this war and its outcome. It shows that the First World War was only of limited importance to them. Those authors who did underscor... Mehr ...