Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings
Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869), is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become a reference point for all subsequent discussion of the relations between politics and culture. This edition establishes the authoritative text of this much-revised work, and places it alongside Arnold's three most important essays on political subjects. The introduction sets these works in the context of nineteenth-century intellectual and political history. This edition also contains a chronology of Arnold's life, a bibliographical guide and full notes on the names and historical events mentioned in the texts.
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Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings
Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869), is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become a reference point for all subsequent discussion of the relations between politics and culture. This edition establishes the authoritative text of this much-revised work, and places it alongside Arnold's three most important essays on political subjects. The introduction sets these works in the context of nineteenth-century intellectual and political history. This edition also contains a chronology of Arnold's life, a bibliographical guide and full notes on the names and historical events mentioned in the texts.
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Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings

Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings

Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings

Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings

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Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869), is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become a reference point for all subsequent discussion of the relations between politics and culture. This edition establishes the authoritative text of this much-revised work, and places it alongside Arnold's three most important essays on political subjects. The introduction sets these works in the context of nineteenth-century intellectual and political history. This edition also contains a chronology of Arnold's life, a bibliographical guide and full notes on the names and historical events mentioned in the texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521377966
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 02/18/1993
Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 282
Product dimensions: 5.39(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.71(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chronology; Bibliographical note; Note on the texts and acknowledgements; Democracy (1861); The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (1864); Culture and Anarchy: An essay in political and social criticism (1867–9); Equality (1878); Index.
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