Heresies And Heretics (2014)
Heresies And Heretics
“The Lost Literature of Socialism Take Back the Past: Myths of the Twentieth Century The Story of the Novel The English Ideology for Ruth Abbott Heresies and Heretics Memories of the Twentieth Century by George Watson Preface It was seldom easy to be a heretic in Britain in the twentieth century, and even harder to persist in it.
Heresies need orthodoxies, after all, and twentieth-century Britain lacked orthodoxies in politics and literature, at least for long. The V...ictorians had bequeathed ideologies, with an intelligentsia which moved from one limited consensus to another at high speed. The late nineteenth century was the first age, so to speak, in which intellectuals changed their minds again and again. The twentieth century inherited that alarming tradition. After 1908 under Asquith the Edwardians moved to a free-market welfare state; later collectivism became fashionable, between two world wars; then, in the 1970s and after, the world moved back to free-market welfare.MoreLess
Heresies need orthodoxies, after all, and twentieth-century Britain lacked orthodoxies in politics and literature, at least for long. The V...ictorians had bequeathed ideologies, with an intelligentsia which moved from one limited consensus to another at high speed. The late nineteenth century was the first age, so to speak, in which intellectuals changed their minds again and again. The twentieth century inherited that alarming tradition. After 1908 under Asquith the Edwardians moved to a free-market welfare state; later collectivism became fashionable, between two world wars; then, in the 1970s and after, the world moved back to free-market welfare.MoreLess
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