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9781859844618

To Relish the Sublime? Culture and Self-Realization in Postmodern Times

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  • ISBN13:

    9781859844618

  • ISBN10:

    1859844618

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-12-17
  • Publisher: VERSO
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Summary

More than 130 years on from Matthew Arnold's pronouncement that human beings 'must be compelled to relish the sublime', education in the humanities still relies on a more or less Arnoldian ideal of 'culture' as the means of intellectual development. In this distinctive and original work, Martin Ryle and Kate Soper reflect critically on this enduring ideal, exploring the tensions and contradictions between it and the contemporary world of work, pleasure and consumption. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Martin Ryle is Senior Lecturer in Continuing Education at the University of Sussex Kate Soper teaches philosophy and cultural theory at the University of North London

Table of Contents

Introduction: To relish the sublime? 1(22)
Philosophical Conceptions
Philosophy and self-realisation
23(34)
Cultural self-realisation: countervailing forces and sceptical voices
57(38)
Fictional Representations
`A tendency to set the mind in motion': novel-reading and self-realisation
95(22)
Culture and self-realisation: realist engagements
117(44)
Culture and self-realisation: modernist distances
161(18)
Conclusion: Culture and self-realisation in postmodern times 179(30)
Notes 209(40)
Index 249

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