Culture and Anarchy

by Matthew Arnold

Overview

Culture and Anarchy is a series of essays by Matthew Arnold. According to his view advanced in the book, "Culture is a study of perfection". His often quoted phrase "[culture is] the best which has been thought and said" comes from the Preface to Culture and Anarchy: The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically. The book contains most of the terms - culture, sweetness and light, Barbarian, Philistine, Hebraism, and many others - which are more associated with Arnold's work influence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783736811157
Publisher:	BookRix
Publication date:	06/28/2019
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Pages:	226
File size:	911 KB

About the Author

Jane Garnett is a Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Wadham College, Oxford. She is a founder member of the editorial board of the Journal Victorian Culture.

Table of Contents

	Editor's Preface	vii
	Editor's Introduction	xi
	Author's Preface	3
	Introduction	39
Chapter I	Sweetness and Light	43
Chapter II	Doing as one Likes	72
Chapter III	Barbarians, Philistines, Populace	98
Chapter IV	Hebraism and Hellenism	129
Chapter V	Porro Unum Est Necessarium	145
Chapter VI	Our Liberal Practitioners	165
	Conclusion	202
	Notes	213
	Bibliography	239