Cultural Conservatism, Political Liberalism

Cultural Conservatism, Political Liberalism
Author: James Seaton
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780472106455

Examines whether cultural studies has been too dismissive of the tradition of literary-cultural criticism that preceded it

Fabianism and Culture

Fabianism and Culture
Author: Ian Britain
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2005-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521021296

This book is an attempt to remedy the neglect of the cultural and aesthetic aspects of English socialism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. An outstanding symptom of this neglect is the way in which the Fabian Society, and its two leading lights, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, have usually been depicted as completely indifferent to art and to the artistic ramifications of socialism. Most commentators have painted Fabian socialism as a narrowly utilitarian programme of social and administrative reform, preoccupied with the mechanisms of politics and largely obvious of wider, more 'human' issues. One of the basic aims of the book is to question this bleakly philistine image, by showing the basis of the Fabians' beliefs in romancism as well as utilitarianism.

Anti-Nietzsche

Anti-Nietzsche
Author: Malcolm Bull
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1844678938

Nietzsche, the philosopher seemingly opposed to everyone, has met with remarkably little opposition himself. He remains what he wanted to be— the limit-philosopher of a modernity that never ends. In this provocative, sometimes disturbing book, Bull argues that merely to reject Nietzsche is not to escape his lure. He seduces by appealing to our desire for victory, our creativity, our humanity. Only by ‘reading like a loser’ and failing to live up to his ideals can we move beyond Nietzsche to a still more radical revaluation of all values—a subhumanism that expands the boundaries of society until we are left with less than nothing in common. Anti-Nietzsche is a subtle and subversive engagement with Nietzsche and his twentieth-century interpreters—Heidegger, Vattimo, Nancy, and Agamben. Written with economy and clarity, it shows how a politics of failure might change what it means to be human.

Poetry of Byron

Poetry of Byron
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1892
Genre: English poetry
ISBN: