John Ruskin And the Ethics of Consumption (Studies in Religion & Culture Series)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: October 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780813925585
Subjects: Ethics & moral philosophy; Religion: general; Social & political philosophy; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; USA; American - Hispanic American; 19th century; Consumption (Economics); Didactic literature, English; Great Britain; History; History and criticism; Moral and ethical aspects
Description: "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.