1st edition. Language: English. ISBN: 0521252334. EAN: 9780521252331.

Near fine cloth copy in a very good, edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper , now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered.

Physical description: viii, 220 pages. Contents: The laws of right -- Justice and authority -- The nature of gothic -- Economics, 'the damned lie' -- The division of society -- Education -- Work -- Revolution -- The legacy. Subjects: Ruskin, John 1819-1900 Political and social views. Ruskin, John 1819-1900 Economics.Social justice. Social ethics. Frankfurt school of sociology. Critical theory In sociology. Functionalism In sociological theory. Structuration. Summary: John Ruskin was one of the great Victorians established while still young as an arbiter of taste in painting and architecture and as one of the greatest of all writers of English prose. When he was forty he decided to abandon the field in which his reputation had been secured in order to awaken the world to the peril of devastation which, he believed, would follow its preoccupation with profit and its subservience to a false economic doctrine. He regarded his social criticism as a duty, reluctantly accepted, to a society which had abandoned the traditional and religious values that had been the foundation of its civilization. Ruskin's labour, to which he devoted the rest of his life, was to bring a searching intelligence, considerable learning and a moral concern to providing a ruthless criticism of the values of Victorian England.



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BZDB318 Unbranded ISBN: 0521252334 EAN: 9780521252331 Anthony, Peter (1929-) John Ruskin's labour : a study of Ruskin's social theory / P.D. Anthony