Culture and Anarchy - Oxford Worlds Classics
Matthew Arnold, Jane Garnett

New Edition

Paperback (26 Feb 2009)


Publishers Synopsis

The men of culture are the true apostles of equality. Matthew Arnolds famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society that are as relevant now as they have ever been. Arnold seeks to find out what culture really is, what good it can do, what is our own special need of it in an age of rapid social change and increasing mechanization. He contrasts culture, the study of perfection, with anarchy, the mood of unrest and uncertainty that pervaded mid-Victorian England. How can individuals be educated, not indoctrinated, and what is the role of the state in disseminating sweetness and light? This edition reproduces the original book version and enables readers to appreciate its immediate historical context as well as the reasons for its continued importance today, in the face of the challenges of multi-culturalism and post-modernism.


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Book information

ISBN: 9780199538744
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date: 26 Feb 2009
Edition: New Edition
DEWEY: 306.0941
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 221
Weight: 192g
Height: 196mm
Width: 131mm
Spine width: 13mm