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OverviewThe oldest word in politics is new . The oldest word in the writing of history may well be modern : it is, without doubt, one of the most overworked adjectives in the English language. But the indeterminacy is perhaps just another way of saying that the difficulties raised are of a kind which simply will not go away... This collection of eight essays on aspects of modernity and modernism takes up the challenge of examining the complex, but fascinating convergence of aesthetics, politics and a quasi-spiritual dimension which is perhaps typical of British modernist thinking about modernity. This may have produced figures whom we now dismiss as eccentrics or aesthetes , it none the less produced figures whom many still think of as in some sense embodying the national identity: what, after all, could be more English than a William Morris wallpaper design? Rather than towards socialism in any of its scientific guises, what the British modernist approach to modernity may have been pushing at was yet another mutation of liberalism: a libertarian-humanitarian hybrid in which indigenous radical and Evangelical legacies keep scientific socialism in check, where fellowship and domesticity edge out a larger-scale, more abstract fraternity , and where citoyennete or civisme give way to what George Orwell was later to define simply as decency . Full Product DetailsAuthor: Trevor HarrisPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Edition: Unabridged edition Weight: 0.553kg ISBN: 9781443813648ISBN 10: 1443813648 Pages: 155 Publication Date: 06 November 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTrevor Harris is Professor of British Civilisation in the Department of English Studies at the Universite Francois-Rabelais, Tours, France. He has worked extensively on the intellectual history of Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and on British foreign policy. His most recent book is Une Certaine idee de l'Angleterre in the collection L'Histoire au present (Paris: Armand Colin, 2006). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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