阿诺德：文化与无政府状态 英文原版 Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose Matthew Arnold 

基本信息

By (author) Matthew Arnold , Introduction by P. Keating

Format Paperback | 528 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 23mm | 362g

Publication date 05 Feb 2015

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint PENGUIN CLASSICS

Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom

Language English

Edition Statement UK ed.

ISBN10 0141396245

ISBN13 9780141396248

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

19世纪后叶英国著名诗人、文学和社会评论家马修·阿诺德的代表作。作者将维多利亚时代的英国人分为野蛮人（贵族）、非利士人（中产阶级）和群氓（平民），抨击了他们的自满、庸俗和拜金主义，倡导以美与智的文化（通过阅读、观察和思考通向天道和神的意旨）来对抗随心所欲、我行我素的个人主义与工业主义所导致的缺乏秩序、准则和方向感的无政府状态，以期实现“文化、人性整体和谐、全面发展的完美"，从而确立国家的观念、集体的优秀的自我，和民族的健全理智。

'One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.'

Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial society in 'bondage to machinery' and argued instead that the wonder and joy of culture - in particular the 'sweetness and light' of classical civilization - were essential to human life. The other pieces here, on literary criticism, schools, France, journalism and democracy, form a powerful call to arms from a writer who believed that the English needed to be taught not what to think, but how to think.

Edited with an introduction by P. J. Keating.

作者简介

Matthew Arnold (1822-88) was the son of the famous Dr Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby School. After studying at Oxford, Arnold spent several years travelling and writing experimental verse. Having established his reputation with his poetry, Arnold went on to writing prose. His influence as a social and literary critic and a controversial thinker on religious and educational issues has been felt throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.