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Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, 1720-1850 (Paperback): Richard Adelman, Catherine Packham Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, 1720-1850 (Paperback)
Richard Adelman, Catherine Packham
R1,296 Discovery Miles 12 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This edited collection, Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, aims to address the genealogy and formation of political economy as a knowledge project from 1720 to 1850. Through individual essays on both literary and political economic writers, this volume defines and analyses the formative moves, both epistemological and representational, which proved foundational to the emergence of political economy as a dominant discourse of modernity. The collection also explores political economy's relation to other discourses and knowledge practices in this period; representation in and of political economy; abstraction and political economy; fictional mediations and interrogations of political economy; and political economy and its 'others', including political economy and affect, and political economy and the aesthetic. Essays presented in this text are at once historical and conceptual in focus, and manifest literary critical disciplinary expertise whilst being of genuinely broad and interdisciplinary interest. Amongst the writers whose work is addressed are: Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, David Hume, Thomas Malthus, Jane Marcet, J. S. Mill, David Ricardo, and Adam Smith. The introduction, by the editors, sets up the conceptual, theoretical and analytical framework explored by each of the essays. The final essay and response bring the concerns of the volume up to date by engaging with current economic and financial realities, by, respectively, showing how an informed and critical history of political economy could transform current economic practices, and by exploring the abundance of recent conceptual art addressing representation and the unpresentable in economic practice.

Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, 1720-1850 (Hardcover): Richard Adelman, Catherine Packham Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, 1720-1850 (Hardcover)
Richard Adelman, Catherine Packham
R4,150 Discovery Miles 41 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This edited collection, Political Economy, Literature & the Formation of Knowledge, aims to address the genealogy and formation of political economy as a knowledge project from 1720 to 1850. Through individual essays on both literary and political economic writers, this volume defines and analyses the formative moves, both epistemological and representational, which proved foundational to the emergence of political economy as a dominant discourse of modernity. The collection also explores political economy's relation to other discourses and knowledge practices in this period; representation in and of political economy; abstraction and political economy; fictional mediations and interrogations of political economy; and political economy and its 'others', including political economy and affect, and political economy and the aesthetic. Essays presented in this text are at once historical and conceptual in focus, and manifest literary critical disciplinary expertise whilst being of genuinely broad and interdisciplinary interest. Amongst the writers whose work is addressed are: Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, David Hume, Thomas Malthus, Jane Marcet, J. S. Mill, David Ricardo, and Adam Smith. The introduction, by the editors, sets up the conceptual, theoretical and analytical framework explored by each of the essays. The final essay and response bring the concerns of the volume up to date by engaging with current economic and financial realities, by, respectively, showing how an informed and critical history of political economy could transform current economic practices, and by exploring the abundance of recent conceptual art addressing representation and the unpresentable in economic practice.

A Day at the Beach (Paperback): Richard Adelman A Day at the Beach (Paperback)
Richard Adelman; Edited by Wyatt Doyle
R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Day at the Beach (Hardcover): Richard Adelman A Day at the Beach (Hardcover)
Richard Adelman; Edited by Wyatt Doyle
R845 Discovery Miles 8 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Teacher Tales (Hardcover): Richard Adelman Teacher Tales (Hardcover)
Richard Adelman; Edited by Wyatt Doyle, Andrew Biscontini
R854 Discovery Miles 8 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Teacher Tales (Paperback): Richard Adelman Teacher Tales (Paperback)
Richard Adelman; Edited by Wyatt Doyle, Andrew Biscontini
R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900 (Paperback): Richard Adelman Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900 (Paperback)
Richard Adelman
R1,149 Discovery Miles 11 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Charting the failure of the Romantic critique of political economy, Richard Adelman explores the changing significances and the developing concepts of idleness and aesthetic consciousness during the nineteenth century. Through careful analysis of some of the period's most influential thinkers, including John Stuart Mill, George Eliot, John Ruskin and Karl Marx, Adelman weaves together evolving ideas across a range of intellectual discourses - political economy, meditative poetry, the ideology of the 'gospel of work', cultural theory, the Gothic and psychoanalysis. In doing so, he reconstructs debates over passivity and repose and demonstrates their centrality to the cultural politics of the age. Arguing that hardened conceptions of aesthetic consciousness come into being at moments of civic unrest concerning political representation and that the fin-de-siecle witnesses the demonization of the once revolutionary category of aesthetic consciousness, the book demonstrates that late eighteenth-century positivity around human spirituality is comprehensively dismantled by the beginning of the twentieth century.

Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900 (Hardcover): Richard Adelman Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900 (Hardcover)
Richard Adelman
R3,060 Discovery Miles 30 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Charting the failure of the Romantic critique of political economy, Richard Adelman explores the changing significances and the developing concepts of idleness and aesthetic consciousness during the nineteenth century. Through careful analysis of some of the period's most influential thinkers, including John Stuart Mill, George Eliot, John Ruskin and Karl Marx, Adelman weaves together evolving ideas across a range of intellectual discourses - political economy, meditative poetry, the ideology of the 'gospel of work', cultural theory, the Gothic and psychoanalysis. In doing so, he reconstructs debates over passivity and repose and demonstrates their centrality to the cultural politics of the age. Arguing that hardened conceptions of aesthetic consciousness come into being at moments of civic unrest concerning political representation and that the fin-de-siecle witnesses the demonization of the once revolutionary category of aesthetic consciousness, the book demonstrates that late eighteenth-century positivity around human spirituality is comprehensively dismantled by the beginning of the twentieth century.

Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic, 1750-1830 (Paperback): Richard Adelman Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic, 1750-1830 (Paperback)
Richard Adelman
R1,134 Discovery Miles 11 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Beginning with Adam Smith's dictum that labour was the most significant human occupation, and William Cowper's idealisation of 'The Task', Richard Adelman traces the ways in which Romantic writers responded to a debate over the dangers and rewards of idle contemplation taking place in the second half of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Evolving over a series of discourses which the book considers at length Scottish Enlightenment political economy, penal and educational reform debates, literature, British and German aesthetic theory, social philosophy this debate precipitates the growth of a 'British idealism' in these decades. Exploring the thought of Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Friedrich Schiller, William Cowper, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft, and many of their contemporaries, this study analyses the chain of events that leads to this 'British idealism', and considers its social and political consequences in the cultural theory of the first decades of the nineteenth century."

Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic, 1750-1830 (Hardcover): Richard Adelman Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic, 1750-1830 (Hardcover)
Richard Adelman
R3,052 Discovery Miles 30 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Beginning with Adam Smith's dictum that labour was the most significant human occupation, and William Cowper's idealisation of 'The Task', Richard Adelman traces the ways in which Romantic writers responded to a debate over the dangers and rewards of idle contemplation taking place in the second half of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Evolving over a series of discourses which the book considers at length Scottish Enlightenment political economy, penal and educational reform debates, literature, British and German aesthetic theory, social philosophy this debate precipitates the growth of a 'British idealism' in these decades. Exploring the thought of Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Friedrich Schiller, William Cowper, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft, and many of their contemporaries, this study analyses the chain of events that leads to this 'British idealism', and considers its social and political consequences in the cultural theory of the first decades of the nineteenth century.

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