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Martin H. Ryle and
Kate Soper
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Verso Books
Publication date
November 1, 2002
Pages
224
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781859844618
ISBN-10
1859844618
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.85 lbs.
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Great Britain
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$23.00
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: More than 130 years from Matthew Arnoldâs pronouncement that human beings âmust be compelled to relish the sublimeâ, education in the humanities still relies on the ideal of culture as the means of intellectual development. In this distinctive and original work, Martin Ryle and Kate Soper explore the growing tensions and contradictions between this and the contemporary world of work, pleasure, and consumption. While 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 wide-ranging 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 defense of a conception of personal worth and self-fulfillment for its own sake, Ryle and Soper not only offer a powerful critique of the continuing dominance of work in contemporary society, but also provide a compelling alternative to the standard postmodern skepticism about the relevance of high culture.
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Hardcover
from Verso Books (November 1, 2002); titled "To Relish the Sublime?: Culture and Self-Realisation in Postmodern Times"
9781859846865 | details & prices | 224 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $70.00
About: More than 130 years from Matthew Arnoldâs pronouncement that human beings âmust be compelled to relish the sublimeâ, education in the humanities still relies on the ideal of culture as the means of intellectual development.
About: More than 130 years from Matthew Arnoldâs pronouncement that human beings âmust be compelled to relish the sublimeâ, education in the humanities still relies on the ideal of culture as the means of intellectual development.
Paperback
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from Verso Books (November 1, 2002)
9781859844618 | details & prices | 224 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $23.00
About: More than 130 years from Matthew Arnoldâs pronouncement that human beings âmust be compelled to relish the sublimeâ, education in the humanities still relies on the ideal of culture as the means of intellectual development.
About: More than 130 years from Matthew Arnoldâs pronouncement that human beings âmust be compelled to relish the sublimeâ, education in the humanities still relies on the ideal of culture as the means of intellectual development.
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