Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1850-1930 (Clarendon Paperbacks) - Softcover

Collini, Stefan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198204221 ISBN 13: 9780198204220

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1993

Synopsis

This imaginative and unusual book explores the moral sensibilities and cultural assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the role of intellectuals as public moralists and suggests ways in which their more formal political theory rested upon habits of response and evaluation that were deeply embedded in wider social attitudes and aesthetic judgments. Collini examines the characteristic idioms and strategies of argument employed in periodical and polemical writing, and reconstructs the sense of identity and of relation to an audience exhibited by social critics from John Stuart Mill and Matthew Arnold to J.M. Keynes and F.R. Leavis.

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Review:

Stefan Collini is a sophisticated, witty and thoughtful historian of ideas ... Collini is a fertile and gifted author ... His book on Matthew Arnold ... is a marvel of a compression and trenchant good sense ... [Public Moralists is] a superior book ... sets the mind spinning. (Sheldon Rothblatt, The Higher)

About the Author:

Stefan Collini is the author of Arnold (OUP, 1988; pbk 1988) and has written widely on nineteenth-century intellectual history

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0198204221
• ISBN 13: 9780198204220
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392