02610nam 2200637Ia 450 991081765250332120200520144314.01-281-36899-797866113689991-4039-8224-410.1057/9781403982247(CKB)1000000000342760(EBL)308025(OCoLC)123354481(SSID)ssj0000219747(PQKBManifestationID)11190159(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000219747(PQKBWorkID)10229438(PQKB)11000774(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8224-7(MiAaPQ)EBC308025(Au-PeEL)EBL308025(CaPaEBR)ebr10135715(CaONFJC)MIL136899(EXLCZ)99100000000034276020050110d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPerfection, the state, and Victorian liberalism /Daniel S. Malachuk1st ed. 2005.New York Palgrave Macmillan20051 online resource (219 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-53062-X 1-4039-6835-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Ch. 1. Perfection -- Ch. 2. The state -- Ch. 3. Experience -- Ch. 4. Culture.This book recovers and recommends the core conviction of Victorian liberal theory that human beings, with the help of the state, can achieve an objective moral perfection. The first half of the book considers the diverse modern biases that have blinded us to the merit of this core conviction and weaves together disparate new scholarship (primarily in political theory and Victorian Studies) to set the stage for a reconsideration of that conviction. The second half of the book is that reconsideration outlining the various policies the Victorian liberals (John Stuart Mill and Matthew Arnold, primarily, with a half dozen other nineteenth-century British and American authors) recommended the state employ in the perfection of human beings.LiberalismHistoryState, ThePerfectionLiberalismHistory.State, The.Perfection.320.51Malachuk Daniel S1615110MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817652503321Perfection, the State, and Victorian Liberalism3945183UNINA