Author: John RuskinPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Unto this Last, Munera Pulveris, Time and Tide
Author: John RuskinUnto this Last ; Munera Pulveris ; Time and Tide
Author: Sir Edward Tyas CookPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 565
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The Works of John Ruskin
Author: John RuskinUnto This Last and Other Writings
Author: John RuskinPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141442506
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a profoundly conservative man who looked back to the Middle Ages as a Utopia, yet his ideas had a considerable influence on the British socialist movement. And in making his powerful moral and aesthetic case against the dangers of unhindered industrialization he was strangely prophetic. This volume shows the astounding range and depth of Ruskin's work, and in an illuminating introduction the editor reveals the consistency of Ruskin's philosophy and his adamant belief that questions of economics, art and science could not be separated from questions of morality. In Ruskin's words, 'There is no Wealth but Life.'
Victorian Literature
Author: Clement King ShorterPublisher:
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Category : English
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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The Publisher
Author: The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Book Bulletin
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 638
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A Tale of Two Capitalisms
Author: Supritha RajanPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472904329
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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No questions are more pressing today than the ethical dimensions of global capitalism in relation to an unevenly secularized modernity. A Tale of Two Capitalisms offers a timely response to these questions by reexamining the intellectual history of capitalist economics during the nineteenth century. Rajan’s ambitious book traces the neglected relationships between nineteenth-century political economy, anthropology, and literature in order to demonstrate how these discourses buttress a dominant narrative of self-interested capitalism that obscures a submerged narrative within political economy. This submerged narrative discloses political economy’s role in burgeoning theories of religion, as well as its underlying ethos of reciprocity, communality, and just distribution. Drawing on an impressive range of literary, anthropological, and economic writings from the eighteenth through the twenty-first century, Rajan offers an inventive, interdisciplinary account of why this second narrative of capitalism has so long escaped our notice. The book presents an unprecedented genealogy of key anthropological and economic concepts, demonstrating how notions of sacrifice, the sacred, ritual, totemism, and magic remained conceptually intertwined with capitalist theories of value and exchange in both sociological and literary discourses. Rajan supplies an original framework for discussing the ethical ideals that continue to inform contemporary global capitalism and its fraught relationship to the secular. Its revisionary argument brings new insight into the history of capitalist thought and modernity that will engage scholars across a variety of disciplines.
1860-1900
Author: Sir Edward Tyas CookPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 650
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