Motivated by the belief that evil is a product of social and economic disparities rather than individual depravity, these characters exhibit guilty consciences in which the guilt is not at all like that envisioned by Victorian Christianity. But at the same time, they are premodern, in that they do not possess our therapeutic culture's notion of guilt as neurosis or pathology.
Liberal guilt declined in the Edwardian period, as exemplified in Wells's postmodern masterpiece, "Tono-Bungay," But Born contends that it is a key aspect of 'the liberal imagination' expounded by Lionel Trilling and that it offers correctives to the simplistic individual moral economy of Christianity, the authoritarian modernisms that followed the Edwardian era, and even the strains of liberal nationalism that define the present day.
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Motivated by the belief that evil is a product of social and economic disparities rather than individual depravity, these characters exhibit guilty consciences in which the guilt is not at all like that envisioned by Victorian Christianity. But at the same time, they are premodern, in that they do not possess our therapeutic culture's notion of guilt as neurosis or pathology.
Liberal guilt declined in the Edwardian period, as exemplified in Wells's postmodern masterpiece, "Tono-Bungay," But Born contends that it is a key aspect of 'the liberal imagination' expounded by Lionel Trilling and that it offers correctives to the simplistic individual moral economy of Christianity, the authoritarian modernisms that followed the Edwardian era, and even the strains of liberal nationalism that define the present day.
Imprint | The University of North Carolina Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | 1996 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | 1996 |
Authors | Daniel Born |
Dimensions | 235 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 224 |
Edition | 2nd Revised edition |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8078-4544-8 |
Barcode | 9780807845448 |
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LSN | 0-8078-4544-2 |