Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England write by Barbara Dennis. This book was released on 2016-07-01. Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1987. Readers of Victorian literature, both poetry and prose, are constantly aware of a powerful undercurrent of change - political, social, and intellectual - which determines the shape of the literature being produced. Topics covered include parliamentary reform, the Gentleman, religious debate and secular thought, education; leisure and attitudes to the arts, and the Woman Question. This title will be of interest to students of history.
Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England
Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England write by Barbara Dennis. This book was released on 2016-07-01. Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1987. Readers of Victorian literature, both poetry and prose, are constantly aware of a powerful undercurrent of change - political, social, and intellectual - which determines the shape of the literature being produced. Topics covered include parliamentary reform, the Gentleman, religious debate and secular thought, education; leisure and attitudes to the arts, and the Woman Question. This title will be of interest to students of history.
Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England, 1830-1880
Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England, 1830-1880 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England, 1830-1880 write by David Skilton. This book was released on 1986-12-01. Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England, 1830-1880 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Reforming Philosophy
Reforming Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reforming Philosophy write by Laura J. Snyder. This book was released on 2010-11-15. Reforming Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Victorian period in Britain was an “age of reform.” It is therefore not surprising that two of the era’s most eminent intellects described themselves as reformers. Both William Whewell and John Stuart Mill believed that by reforming philosophy—including the philosophy of science—they could effect social and political change. But their divergent visions of this societal transformation led to a sustained and spirited controversy that covered morality, politics, science, and economics. Situating their debate within the larger context of Victorian society and its concerns, Reforming Philosophy shows how two very different men captured the intellectual spirit of the day and engaged the attention of other scientists and philosophers, including the young Charles Darwin. Mill—philosopher, political economist, and Parliamentarian—remains a canonical author of Anglo-American philosophy, while Whewell—Anglican cleric, scientist, and educator—is now often overlooked, though in his day he was renowned as an authority on science. Placing their teachings in their proper intellectual, cultural, and argumentative spheres, Laura Snyder revises the standard views of these two important Victorian figures, showing that both men’s concerns remain relevant today. A philosophically and historically sensitive account of the engagement of the major protagonists of Victorian British philosophy, Reforming Philosophy is the first book-length examination of the dispute between Mill and Whewell in its entirety. A rich and nuanced understanding of the intellectual spirit of Victorian Britain, it will be welcomed by philosophers and historians of science, scholars of Victorian studies, and students of the history of philosophy and political economy.
The Greenian Moment
The Greenian Moment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Greenian Moment write by Denys P. Leighton. This book was released on 2015-11-30. The Greenian Moment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study of T.H. Green views his philosophical opus through his public life and political commitments, and it uses biography as a lens through which to examine Victorian political culture and its moral climate. The book deals with the political and religious history of Victorian Britain in examining the basis of Green's Liberal partisanship. It demonstrates how his main ethical and political conceptions—his idea of "self-realisation" and his theory of individuality within community—were informed by evangelical theology, popular Protestantism and an idea of the English national consciousness as formed by religious conflict. While the significance of Kantian and Hegelian elements in Green's thought is acknowledged, it is argued that “indigenous” qualities of Green's teachings resonated with values shared alike by elite and rank-and-file Liberals during the mid and late Victorian era. In examining Green’s beliefs about the historical evolution of English liberty, his championing of (Liberal) Nonconformity and Nonconformist causes and his approval of religious bases of community, this study analyzes the ripening of a Greenian moment and traces Green’s influence on Liberal, quasi-socialist and Conservative social reform down to the 1920s. The lasting impact of Green’s teachings on British and Western political philosophy, apparent in the current vogue for communitarianism in liberal theory, indicates limitations of the “secularization thesis” still tacitly accepted by historians of Western political thought.
