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Green Victorians

- The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District
Af: Vicky Albritton, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Engelsk Hardback

Green Victorians

- The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District
Af: Vicky Albritton, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson Engelsk Hardback
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From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life—one without constant, environmentally damaging growth—might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the history of sufficiency has been largely forgotten. Green Victorians tells the story of a circle of men and women in the English Lake District who attempted to create a new kind of economy, turning their backs on Victorian consumer society in order to live a life dependent not on material abundance and social prestige but on artful simplicity and the bonds of community.             At the center of their social experiment was the charismatic art critic and political economist John Ruskin. Albritton and Albritton Jonsson show how Ruskin’s followers turned his theory into practice in a series of ambitious local projects ranging from hand spinning and woodworking to gardening, archaeology, and pedagogy. This is a lively yet unsettling story, for there was a dark side to Ruskin’s community as well—racist thinking, paternalism, and technophobia. Richly illustrated, Green Victorians breaks new ground, connecting the ideas and practices of Ruskin’s utopian community with the problems of ethical consumption then and now.
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From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life—one without constant, environmentally damaging growth—might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the history of sufficiency has been largely forgotten. Green Victorians tells the story of a circle of men and women in the English Lake District who attempted to create a new kind of economy, turning their backs on Victorian consumer society in order to live a life dependent not on material abundance and social prestige but on artful simplicity and the bonds of community.             At the center of their social experiment was the charismatic art critic and political economist John Ruskin. Albritton and Albritton Jonsson show how Ruskin’s followers turned his theory into practice in a series of ambitious local projects ranging from hand spinning and woodworking to gardening, archaeology, and pedagogy. This is a lively yet unsettling story, for there was a dark side to Ruskin’s community as well—racist thinking, paternalism, and technophobia. Richly illustrated, Green Victorians breaks new ground, connecting the ideas and practices of Ruskin’s utopian community with the problems of ethical consumption then and now.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9780226339986
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 022633998X
Kategori: Social- & Kulturhistorie
Udg. Dato: 7 mar 2016
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 243mm
Højde: 238mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 7 mar 2016
Forfatter(e): Vicky Albritton, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
Forfatter(e) Vicky Albritton, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

Kategori Social- & Kulturhistorie

ISBN-13 9780226339986

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 224

Udgave

Længde 20mm

Bredde 243mm

Højde 238mm

Udg. Dato 7 mar 2016

Oplagsdato 7 mar 2016

Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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