: Kirk identifies the subjects of Eliot's poem The Hollow Men as those lacking moral imagination, instead enslaved by appetites and "diabolic" distractions.
: Rooted in Jean-Jacques Rousseau; it rejects old dogmas for "emancipation" from duty, often ending in disillusionment. Eliot and his age : T.S. Eliot's moral imaginat...
: It aims to teach human beings their true nature and dignity through literature and art. : Kirk identifies the subjects of Eliot's poem
: A delight in the perverse and subhuman, which Kirk saw in modern sensationalism and violence. Available Editions of the Report Eliot and his age : T.S. Eliot's moral imaginat...
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.