This book recovers and recommends the core conviction of Victorian liberal theory that human beings, with the help of the state, can achieve an objective moral perfection. The first half of the book considers the diverse modern biases that have blinded us to the merit of this core conviction and weaves together disparate new scholarship (primarily in political theory and Victorian Studies) to set the stage for a reconsideration of that conviction. The second half of the book is that reconsideration outlining the various policies the Victorian liberals (John Stuart Mill and Matthew Arnold, primarily, with a half dozen other nineteenth-century British and American authors) recommended the state employ in the perfection of human beings.
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Introduction Perfection The State Experience Culture ConclusionSobre el autor
DANIEL MALACHUK is an independent scholar.
Idioma Inglés ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 210 ● ISBN 9781403982247 ● Tamaño de archivo 3.2 MB ● Editorial Palgrave Macmillan US ● Ciudad New York ● País US ● Publicado 2005 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 2367062 ● Protección de copia DRM social