- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Verso Books (28 Oct 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1859846866
- ISBN-13: 978-1859846865
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 13.4 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,450,501 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This well-informed study of history, politics and literature ... makes an eloquent, powerful and timely book. Jonathan Ree
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In this work, the authors explore the growing tensions and contradictions between Matthew Arnold's enduring ideal (that human beings "must be compelled to relish the sublime") and the contemporary world of work, pleasure and consumption. Whilst critical of the hypocrisies and elitism that can attach to notions of cultural self-realization, the authors nonetheless defend its overall educational and social value. Their discussion takes in critiques of philosophers from Kant and Schiller to Nietzsche and Marx, and includes historically contextualized readings of novels by Wollstonecraft, Hardy, Gissing, London and Woolf. In their sustained defence of a conception of personal worth and self-fulfilment for its own sake, Ryle and Soper not only offer a critique of the continuing dominance of work in contemporary society, they also provide an alternative to the standard postmodern scepticism about the relevance of high culture.
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