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To Relish The Sublime: Culture And Self-Realisation In Postmodern Times
by Kate Soper, Martin H. Ryle (Author),
Verso (Publisher)
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Book Description
More than 130 years from Matthew Arnold's pronouncement that human beings 'must
be compelled to relish the sublime', education in the humanities still relies on
the ideal of culture as the means of intellectual development. In this
distinctive and original work, Martin Ryle and Kate Soper explore the growing
tensions and contradictions between this and the contemporary world of work,
pleasure, and consumption. While critical of the hypocrisies and elitism that
can attach to notions of cultural self-realization, the authors nonetheless
defend its overall educational and social value. Their wide-ranging discussion
takes in critiques of philosophers from Kant and Schiller to Nietzsche and Marx,
and includes historically contextualized
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9781859844618
Language English
Binding Paper Back
Publisher Verso
Publishing Date 2002-12-17
Total Pages 264