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Opening the way for a reexamination of Matthew Arnold's unique
contributions to ethical criticism, James Walter Caufield
emphasizes the central role of philosophical pessimism in Arnold's
master tropes of "culture" and "conduct." Caufield uses Arnold's
ethics as a lens through which to view key literary and cultural
movements of the past 150 years, demonstrating that Arnoldian
conduct is grounded in a Victorian ethic of "renouncement," a form
of altruism that wholly informs both Arnold's poetry and prose and
sets him apart from the many nineteenth-century public moralists.
Arnold's thought is situated within a cultural and philosophical
context that shows the continuing relevance of "renouncement" to
much contemporary ethical reflection, from the political kenosis of
Giorgio Agamben and the pensiero debole of Gianni Vattimo, to the
ethical criticism of Wayne C. Booth and Martha Nussbaum. In
refocusing attention on Arnold's place within the broad history of
critical and social thought, Caufield returns the poet and critic
to his proper place as a founding father of modern cultural
criticism.
Opening the way for a reexamination of Matthew Arnold's unique
contributions to ethical criticism, James Walter Caufield
emphasizes the central role of philosophical pessimism in Arnold's
master tropes of "culture" and "conduct." Caufield uses Arnold's
ethics as a lens through which to view key literary and cultural
movements of the past 150 years, demonstrating that Arnoldian
conduct is grounded in a Victorian ethic of "renouncement," a form
of altruism that wholly informs both Arnold's poetry and prose and
sets him apart from the many nineteenth-century public moralists.
Arnold's thought is situated within a cultural and philosophical
context that shows the continuing relevance of "renouncement" to
much contemporary ethical reflection, from the political kenosis of
Giorgio Agamben and the pensiero debole of Gianni Vattimo, to the
ethical criticism of Wayne C. Booth and Martha Nussbaum. In
refocusing attention on Arnold's place within the broad history of
critical and social thought, Caufield returns the poet and critic
to his proper place as a founding father of modern cultural
criticism.
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