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John Ruskin’s Politics and Natural Law: An Intellectual Biography
Springer Verlag (2018)
Abstract
This book offers new perspectives on the origins and development of John Ruskin’s political thought. Graham A. MacDonald traces the influence of late medieval and pre-Enlightenment thought in Ruskin’s writing, reintroducing readers to Ruskin’s politics as shaped through his engagement with concepts of natural law, legal rights, labour and welfare organization. From Ruskin’s youthful studies of geology and chemistry to his back-to-the-land project, the Guild of St. George, he emerges as a complex political thinker, a reformer—and what we would recognize today as an environmentalist. John Ruskin’s Politics and Natural Law is a nuanced reappraisal of neglected areas of Ruskin’s thought.
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The Condition of Political Virtue: Co-operative Individualism and Civil Association
This chapter summarizes Ruskin’s thought and the way in which an account of Christian virtue informs that thought and his political outlook. Recognized to adhere to a conservative British tradition favourable to mixed government, episcopacy and legally constituted class relations, his reform advocac... see more
Easing Towards ‘A Vast Policy’: Establishing the Guild of St. George
The intellectual origins of The Guild of St. George are considered from the standpoint of utopian thought, past and present. The rural bias in Ruskin’s program is noticed along with his revival of the guild as an organizational form considered appropriate to the requirements of modern living and eco... see more
Towards Pluralism: Oxford Teaching and Natural Law: 1870–77
Appointed to the new Slade Professorship of Art at Oxford in 1870, Ruskin’s lectures influenced a range of young intellectuals destined to become prominent in politics, the empire and the arts. In 1871, he relocated to the Lake District and commenced work on ideas for a back-to-the-land movement, pr... see more
Wealth, Justice and the Medieval Poor Law: 1864–70
Following the death of his father in 1864, Ruskin was now independently wealthy with domestic duties. He went on the lecture circuit, carried out extensive correspondence and became embroiled in public affairs issues including the Colenso heresy trial and the Governor Eyre controversy. He also publi... see more
On the Moral Disorder of Victorian England: From Art to Political Economy: 1853–63
Attention is focused on the years after Ruskin's marriage breakdown in 1854 and his subsequent involvement in William Maurice’s Working Men's College in London. Ideas about guilds start to form in his thought and in The Political Economy of Art of 1857 he first advances broader social principles. As... see more
Art, Morality and the Fate of Nations: 1848–53
This chapter focuses on the influence of British and European calls for radical reform on Ruskin’s artistic studies after 1848. Threats to Venice issue from a combination of war and politically sponsored violence, the rise of tourism, associated with new rail access, and the rise of building restora... see more
The Wine Merchant’s Son: Ruskin’s Discovery of the World
This chapter reviews Ruskin’s early years of education, his exposure to great literature and his mastery of Biblical texts in the home. His great interest in science, particularly geology, is noticed along with his positive early association with such figures as Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell. His... see more
Introduction
This chapter reviews the mixed reception given Ruskin’s writings and on the shift in attention towards economic and social issues in the 1850s, away from his initial focus on art and the work of W.J.M. Turner. Accounts of both contemporary and later critical responses to his political thought are pr... see more
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