: His work acted as a form of "Socratic self-criticism," disturbing a society drifting toward moral bankruptcy.
Eliot lived through a period dominated by what he saw as destructive ideologies, including nationalism, Marxist solutions, and "social justice" movements that he believed stripped populations of their true identity.
In his seminal work Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliot’s Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century , Russell Kirk frames T.S. Eliot as the preeminent man of letters who used "moral imagination" to confront the spiritual and cultural decay of the 1900s. The Core Concept: Moral Imagination
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: Eliot used this imagination to describe the "abyss" society falls into when it rejects inner and outer order. Eliot vs. His Age
: A delight in the perverse and subhuman, which Kirk saw in modern sensationalism and violence. Available Editions of the Report
