R. H. Tawney and His Times: Socialism as Fellowship - Softcover

Terrill, Ross

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674743776 ISBN 13: 9780674743779

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1973

Synopsis

Socialism as Fellowship

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Review:

This biographical and analytical study of R.H. Tawney has three important merits. It is brief but dense (in the best sense). It is shrewd and reticent in its comments. And it is timely... it is good to be reminded that in Tawney's work we have a rich and permanent body of well-argued propositions, awaiting discovery by the younger generation, and rediscovery by their elders.

Should be the standard work for our generation.

A valuable study of Tawney's thought, enriched by a picture of the man, much of it based on interviews with those who knew him well.

A fine biography of Tawney the man and public figure ... Provides a good window on British political culture, especially that particular variant, humanistic socialism.

Invaluable both for scholars and for undergraduates who may have a special interest in British socialism, or a general interest in 20th-century intellectual and social history.

Mr. Terrill has written a magnificent book about a man who was larger than life in his influence on people and thought ... I shall not be surprised if it becomes a minor classic.

Terrill has written a fascinating study of Tawney. Opening with an elegant biographical sketch, he moves on to an evaluation of his thought and its importance in the socialist tradition. This section is a well-done and critical reminder that Tawney's humanistic socialism still has validity as a framework for social and political action.

I have read it, enthralled, at a single sitting.--Professor Maurice Cranston

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0674743776
• ISBN 13: 9780674743779
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384