Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose

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ISBN9780141396248
AutoresMatthew Arnold
EditoraPenguin Books Ltd
FormatoCapa mole
Número de páginas528
Peso (kg)0,360
Data de Publicação05/02/2015
Preço (iva excl.)€ 15,52
Imposto€ 0,93
Preço (iva inc.)€ 16,45
Disponibilidade2 unidades em armazém externo

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''One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.''

Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial society in ''bondage to machinery'' and argued instead that the wonder and joy of culture - in particular the ''sweetness and light'' of classical civilization - were essential to human life. The other pieces here, on literary criticism, schools, France, journalism and democracy, form a powerful call to arms from a writer who believed that the English needed to be taught not what to think, but how to think.

Edited with an introduction by P. J. Keating.