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Author: Oscar Wilde
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Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141958901
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891): 'The Decay of Lying, 'Pen, Pencil, Poison', and 'The Critic as Artist'. Wilde is familiar to us as the ironic critic behind the social comedies, as the creator of the beautiful and doomed Dorian Gray, as the flamboyant aesthete and the demonised homosexual. This volume presents us with a different Wilde. Wilde emerges here as a deep and serious reader of literature and philosophy, and an eloquent and original thinker about society and art.

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780343656362
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Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Author: Oscar Wilde
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Languages : en
Pages : 30

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THE chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity ofliving for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly uponalmost everybody. In fact, scarcely anyone at all escapes.Now and then, in the course of the century, a great man of science, like Darwin; agreat poet, like Keats; a fine critical spirit, like M. Renan; a supreme artist, likeFlaubert, has been able to isolate himself, to keep himself out of reach of theclamorous claims of others, to stand 'under the shelter of the wall, ' as Plato puts it, and so to realise the perfection of what was in him, to his own incomparable gain, andto the incomparable and lasting gain of the whole world. These, however, areexceptions. The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggeratedaltruism-are forced, indeed, so to spoil them. They find themselves surrounded byhideous poverty, by hideous ugliness, by hideous starvation. It is inevitable that theyshould be strongly moved by all this. The emotions of man are stirred more quicklythan man's intelligence; and, as I pointed out some time ago in an article on thefunction of criticism, it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it isto have sympathy with thought. Accordingly, with admirable, though misdirectedintentions, they very seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task ofremedying the evils that they see. But their remedies do not cure the disease: theymerely prolong it. Indeed, their remedies are part of the disease.They try to solve the problem of poverty, for instance, by keeping the poor alive; or, in the case of a very advanced school, by amusing the poor.But this is not a solution: it is an aggravation of the difficulty. The proper aim is to tryand reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. And thealtruistic virtues have really prevented the carrying out of this aim. Just as the worstslave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horrorof the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by thosewho contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who domost harm are the people who try to do most good; and at last we have had thespectacle of men who have really studied the problem and know the life-educatedmen who live in the East End-coming forward and imploring the community torestrain its altruistic impulses of charity, benevolence, and the like. They do so on theground that such charity degrades and demoralises. They are perfectly right. Charitycreates a multitude of s

Author: Oscar Wilde
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Oscar Wilde
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Category : English prose
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1910749397
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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This selection of Oscar Wilde’s writings provides a fresh perspective on his character and thinking. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these pieces show that beneath the trademark wit, Wilde was a deeply humane and visionary writer, as challenging today as he was in the late 1800s. This edition includes essays on interior design, prison reform, Shakespeare, the dramatic dialogue Decay of Lying and the seminal Soul of Man.

Author: Oscar Wilde
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ISBN: 9781517764623
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely anyone at all escapes.

Author: Kerry Powell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016134
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 437

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Concise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde's life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time.

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Independently Published
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Languages : en
Pages : 56

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"The Soul of Man Under Socialism" is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde in which he expounds a libertarian socialist worldview and a critique of charity.