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To Relish the Sublime? - Culture and Self-Realization in Postmodern Times (Paperback)
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To Relish the Sublime? - Culture and Self-Realization in Postmodern Times (Paperback)
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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 readings of novels by
Wollstonecraft, Hardy, Gissing, London, and Woolf. In their
sustained defense of a conception of personal worth and
self-fulfillment for its own sake, Ryle and Soper not only offer a
powerful critique of the continuing dominance of work in
contemporary society, but also provide a compelling alternative to
the standard postmodern skepticism about the relevance of high
culture.
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