The controversialist : an intellectual life of Goldwin Smith / / Paul T. Phillips

• Autore: Phillips Paul T. <1942->
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2002; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Disciplina: 070/.92; B
• Soggetto topico: College teachers - England; Journalists - England; Journalists - Ontario - Toronto
• Soggetto geografico: Toronto (Ont.) Biography
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-192) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- The Controversialist -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- NOTES -- Chapter 1 Early Life -- FROM READING TO OXFORD -- REFORM AT OXFORD -- NOTES -- Chapter 2 The Regius Professor -- NOTES -- Chapter 3 From Academic to Sage -- NOTES -- Chapter 4 Historian at Large -- NOTES -- Chapter 5 The Transatlantic Liberal -- FREEDOM AND THE REMOVAL OF PRIVILEGE -- ORDERLY PROGRESS -- A CULTURE OF PROGRESS -- ANGLO-SAXONDOM -- NOTES -- Chapter 6 Anti-Semitism -- NOTES -- Chapter 7 Into the Abyss -- NO REFUGE BUT IN TRUTH: THE PERILS OF FREETHOUGHT -- TOWARD THE LEVIATHAN -- NOTES -- Epilogue: Guesses at the Riddle of Goldwin Smith -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- PRIMARY MANUSCRIPT SOURCES -- PRIMARY PRINTED SOURCES -- Some Well-Known Books by Goldwin Smith -- Selected Works of Relevance by Authors Contemporary with Goldwin Smith -- SELECTED SECONDARY SOURCES -- Index -- About the Author.
• Sommario/riassunto: Goldwin Smith (1823-1910) was a celebrated, transatlantic writer on current events, politics, religion, history, and literature. While he made his academic mark teaching at Oxford, Cornell, and later as a resident guru at Toronto, his facile pen earned him a far greater reputation with general readers throughout the English-speaking world. Determined to rouse concern over issues that he deemed to be important to the advancement of humanity, Smith was deemed the controversialist by the Dictionary of National Biography. A study of his life and his writings provides new insight into liberalism, anti-semitism, the role of the journalist, and other aspects of life in late 19th century North America and Britain. As a public intellectual, Goldwin Smith spoke out on a variety of issues, frequently provoking intense debate. Phillips argues that the core of Smith's thought and the driving force behind his role as a controversialist lay in his moral philosophy, which provided a sense of direction to Smith's many and sometimes disparate writings and activities. This study will also probe the serious dilemma posed by Smith's path to agnosticism in the last decades of his life. By moving to a position of virtual unbelief, Smith risked damage not only to his carefully-crafted public persona, but also to a life's work as an impassioned moralist.
• Titolo autorizzato: The controversialist
• ISBN: 9798400631733; 9786610422739; 9781280422737; 1280422734; 9780313010934; 0313010935
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910971526003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II