Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1850-1930

by Stefan Collini

This imaginative and unusual book explores the moral sensibilities and cultural assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the role of intellectuals as public moralists and suggests ways in which their more formal political theory rested upon habits of response and evaluation that were deeply embedded in wider social attitudes and aesthetic judgments. Collini examines the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198204221
• ISBN13: 9780198204220
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"