John Ruskin and the ethics of consumption / David M. Craig.

Main entry:

Craig, David Melville, 1965- author.

Title & Author:

John Ruskin and the ethics of consumption / David M. Craig.

Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.

Description:

x, 422 pages ; 25 cm.

Series:

Studies in religion and culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-404) and index.
The sources of Ruskin's moral vocabulary. The duty of delight ; The spirit of labor -- "Modern education": a pedagogy of character and vision ; The nature of imagination ; The vision of religion ; The politics of medievalism -- The ethics of consumption. The value of virtues ; Is good consumption possible? -- Conclusion: moral vision in religion, culture, and consumption.

Summary:

"The first book on the Victorian critic and public intellectual John Ruskin by a scholar of religion and ethics, this work recovers both Ruskin's engaged critique of economic life and his public practice of moral imagination. With its reading of Ruskin as an innovative contributor to a tradition of ethics concerned with character, culture, and community, this book recasts established interpretations of Ruskin's place in nineteenth-century literature and aesthetics, challenges nostalgic diagnoses of the supposed historical loss of virtue ethics, and demonstrates the limitations of any politics that eschews common purpose as vital to individual agency and social welfare."--Jacket.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0813925584 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780813925585 (cloth ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Ethics.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Political and social views.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Ruskin, John.
Consumption (Economics) Moral and ethical aspects Great Britain History 19th century.
Didactic literature, English History and criticism.
Littérature didactique anglaise Histoire et critique.
Consumption (Economics) Moral and ethical aspects
Didactic literature, English
Ethics
Political and social views
Verbrauch
Ethik
Kapitalismus
Wirtschaftsethik
idées politiques Ruskin, John.
Great Britain

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Added entries:

Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249534
Call No.: BIB 179125
Status: Available

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