What's Wrong with the World (Aziloth Books)

by G. K. Chesterton

Overview

Chesterton's famous response to the 'London Times' question: 'What's Wrong with the World?' (he replied: "I am"), belied the great author's deep interest in human social problems. He eventually appropriated the query as the title of a new book - a polemic against what he saw as humanity's unfailing tendency to mistake the symptoms of a problem for the underlying cause of the dilemma, and thereby exacerbate the issue still further. Chesterton has been called 'The Apostle of Common Sense', and he turns his incisive thought and dry wit towards a series of topics, including prevailing attitudes on sex, feminism and education, all of which he believed would eventually corrupt and destroy western society. The result is a book that, despite being written over a century ago, comes across as a trenchant critique of modern culture - a shockingly contemporary and startlingly pertinent appraisal of present day social problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908388469
Publisher:	Aziloth Books
Publication date:	10/18/2011
Pages:	134
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.29(d)

About the Author

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936) was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox". Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories-first carefully turning them inside out."

Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, his "friendly enemy", said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius." Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.

Table of Contents

The Homelessness of Man
The Medical Mistake     3
Wanted, An Unpractical Man     7
The New Hypocrite     13
The Fear of the Past     19
The Unfinished Temple     27
The Enemies of Property     33
The Free Family     37
The Wildness of Domesticity     42
History of Hudge and Gudge     47
Oppression by Optimism     52
The Homelessness of Jones     55
Imperialism: Or the Mistake About Man
The Charm of Jingoism     61
Wisdom and the Weather     65
The Common Vision     72
The Insane Necessity     76
Feminism: Or the Mistake About Woman
The Unmilitary Suffragette     85
The Universal Stick     88
The Emancipation of Domesticity     95
The Romance of Thrift     101
The Coldness of Chloe     107
The Pedant and the Savage     112
The Modern Surrender of Woman     116
The Brand of the Fleur de Lys     119
Sincerity and the Gallows     123
The Higher Anarchy     126
The Queen and the Suffragettes     131
The Modern Slave     133
Education: Or theMistake About the Child
The Calvinism of To-day     139
The Tribal Terror     142
The Tricks of Environment     145
The Truth About Education     147
An Evil Cry     150
Authority the Unavoidable     153
The Humility of Mrs. Grundy     158
The Broken Rainbow     162
The Need for Narrowness     166
The Case for the Public Schools     169
The School for Hypocrites     175
The Staleness of the New Schools     181
The Outlawed Parent     185
Folly and Female Education     189
The Home of Man
The Empire of the Insect     195
The Fallacy of the Umbrella Stand     202
The Dreadful Duty of Gudge     207
A Doubt     210
Conclusion     212