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To Relish the Sublime?: Culture and Self-Realization in Postmodern Times: Culture and Self-Realisation in Postmodern Times - Softcover

Ryle, Martin; Soper, Kate

 
9781859844618: To Relish the Sublime?: Culture and Self-Realization in Postmodern Times: Culture and Self-Realisation in Postmodern Times
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1859844618 ISBN 13: 9781859844618
Verlag: Verso, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

More than 130 years from Matthew Arnold’s pronouncement that human beings ‘must be compelled to relish the sublime’, 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Martin Ryle is Senior Lecturer in Continuing Education at the University of Sussex. His previous books include The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament, Ecology and Socialism, and Journeys in Ireland.

Kate Soper teaches philosophy and cultural theory at the University of North London. Her previous works include On Human Needs, What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the Non-Human and, with Verso, Troubled Pleasures.

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Verlag
Verso
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1859844618
ISBN 13 
9781859844618
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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