عنوان

The importance of the idea of knowledge in the development of cultural criticism in the 19th century, with particular reference to Carlyle, Ruskin and Arnold

شماره

TLets534648

عنوان اصلي

The importance of the idea of knowledge in the development of cultural criticism in the 19th century, with particular reference to Carlyle, Ruskin and Arnold

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Taylor, Matthew

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Birkbeck (University of London)

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1986

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Birkbeck (University of London)

امتياز متن

1986

متن يادداشت

This thesis is intended to clarify the ways in which the works ofthree Victorian critics - Carlyle, Ruskin and Arnold - can be seen asresponses to the new importance that Victorian society attached to theidea of knowledge. In particular, their society was keen to have ascientific knowledge by which to govern itself, and the rise of thesocial sciences in the early nineteenth century is an obviousmanifestation of this desire. Moreover, the increasing demands foruniversal education throughout the century reflected a belief thatthis knowledge should be disseminated as widely as possible and thatmen should and could be left to act freely in the light of therational self-knowledge derived from this education. This is partly apolitical argument, proposing a new source of authority, and Victorianarguments for democracy are often linked to arguments for universal( education. But the central impetus behind these political andpedagogic demands comes from the utilitarian moral philosophy ofBentham and his followers, which presupposed the possibility of anabsolute, impartial and neutral assessment of states of affairs. Theworks of the Victorian critics are best understood as attempts toarticulate and to rectify the shortcomings of this utilitarian idea ofknowledge, above all its characteristic inability to accommodate themoral and ethical considerations, the values and ideals, that are partof a culture's identity. carlyle's critique of self-consciousness andRuskin's attack on neo-classical economics are dramatic and vitalresponses to these shortcomings, but are themselves limited by theautocratic idea of moral knowledge implicit in them. Arnold'sconception of science, and his emphasis on the impersonal andcollective process of criticism, represent a more persuasive and moreauthoritative exposition of the deficiencies of utilitarian knowledge.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Taylor, Matthew

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Birkbeck (University of London)

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y