Politics of Sex and Other Essays

On Conservatism, Culture and Imagination

AvR. Grant

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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These essays cover topics as radically diverse as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Václav Havel, The Magic Flute and Viz magazine. The author, a leading Oakeshott scholar, contributes frequently to the TLS . It includes an otherwise almost unobtainable exchange with Sir Isaiah Berlin.

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Utgivningsdatum:2000-01-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt:345 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349413522

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ROBERT GRANT is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. A Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge from 1970 to 1973, he has lately (1999) been Visiting Research Fellow at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He is the author of Oakeshott, and of nearly one hundred essays, articles and reviews. He is a frequent contributor to The Times Literary Supplement and to Radio Scotland's The Colin Bell Programme. He has lectured widely in the USA and Eastern Europe.

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PART ONE: PRACTICE VERSUS THEORY Conservatism: An Outline Edmund Burke Michael Oakeshott The Unknown Oakeshott Writer and Ideology: Three Case-Studies The Disenchanted Flute: Opera and the Rule of the Concept PART TWO: CULTURE AND SOCIETY On Culture The Politics of Sex The Politics of Death Culture, Technology and Value Organic Society: A Note Four Cheers for Normality Home Truths: C.R. Mackintosh and the House Beautiful PART THREE: THE TRUTH OF FICTION Religion, Art and the Limits of the Sayable Statecraft and Metapolitics in Shakespeare Jane Austen: Ethics And Social Order Trollope, Tact and Virtue Tolstoy and Enlightenment: An Exchange with Isaiah Berlin Aerodromes and Aspidistras: The Worlds of Thirties Fiction The Survivor's Guilt: Wiesel and Sciascia Index