A New View of Society and Other Writings

Informationen zum Autor Gregory Claeys is Professor of History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a leading historian of socialism and utopianism. He is the author of several books, including Searching for Utopia , which has been acclaimed as 'magnificent' by the Times Higher Education . Klappentext Argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. This work then adopts far more radical position, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation of mankind' and the creation of a 'new moral world', and a full-scale reorganization of British society. Zusammenfassung Argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. This work then adopts far more radical position, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation of mankind' and the creation of a 'new moral world', and a full-scale reorganization of British society.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Claeys, Gregory Owen Claeys, Robert Owen, Robert Claeys Owen
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.1991
• EAN: 9780140433487
• ISBN: 978-0-14-043348-7
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Little Black Classics; Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Englisch, Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein, Literarische Essays, Society & culture: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Utopias, Society and culture: general, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies