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John Ruskin, or the Ambiguities of Abundance

A Study in Social and Economic Criticism

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ISBN 9780674422940

Publication Date: 01/01/1972

366 pages

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  • Preface
  • 1. Purity
  • 2. Drive to Humanity
  • 3. Broken Circle
  • 4. Streams of Abundance
  • 5. Bastard Science
  • 6. Shattered Majesty
  • 7. System of Iniquity
  • 8. War and Empire
  • 9. The Insolence of Reaction
  • 10. Public Thing
  • 11. The New Man
  • Epilogue
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Notes
  • Index

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