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Public Moralists

Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain 1850-1930

Paperback Engels 1993 9780198204220
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This imaginative and unusual book analyses the moral sensibilities and assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain, focusing on the role as public moralists of intellectuals from John Stuart Mill and Matthew Arnold to J. M. Keynes and F. R. Leavis.

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ISBN13:9780198204220
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:392

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Introduction; Prt One: Governing Values: Leading minds: The world of the Victorian intellectual; The culture of altruism: Selfishness and the decay of motive; The idea of character: private habits and public virtues; Part Two: Public Voices: Their master's voice: John Stuart Mill as a public moralist; Manly fellows: Fawcett, Stephen, and the liberal temper; Part Three: Moral Sciences: Their title to be heard: professionalization and its discontents; An exclusively professional subject: the jurist as public moralist; Part Four: English Geneologies: From dangerous partisan to national possession: John Stuart Mill in English culture 1873-1933; The Whig interpretation of English literature: literary history and national identity; Index

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