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Informationen zum Autor Gill Cockram completed her PhD at Royal Holloway! University of London. She is currently involved in further research in the history of political ideas. Analysing the form and influence of Ruskin's social theory, this book looks at Ruskin's significant contribution to social and intellectual thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It also examines the chronological development of Ruskin's thought and establishes the extent of his influence among the nascent labour movement. Zusammenfassung In the first book to analyse the form and influence of Ruskin's social theory! Gill Cockram looks at Ruskin's significant contribution to social and intellectual thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In a field often overlooked by nineteenth-century historians! Ruskin and Social Reform clarifies for the first time how Ruskin's social theory was disseminated to a much wider readership than was evident in the mid-nineteenth century and how it was that Ruskin achieved great prominence as a social philosopher. Cockram examines the chronological development of Ruskin's thought and establishes the extent of his influence among the nascent labour movement. It was the support of a thinker as original and as unconventional as Ruskin that helped to challenge the laissez-faire conformities of classical economics and launched the quest to find a more ethical and humane basis for social policy-making. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction 2 John Ruskin: The Emergence of aSocialCritic 3 Ethics andEconomics: The Reception of Unto This Last andMuneraPulveris 4 Vindication:AChangingSocietyandaMoreFavourableReception 5 Frederic Harrison: Positive Thinking 6 Hobson, Ruskin andNew Liberalism 7 Ruskin andthe Socialists Conclusion: Moral Reconstruction in aCapitalist Society...
