Readings from Ruskin: UNTO THIS LAST Session 2 (of 5)
Автор: Guild of St George
Загружено: 2024-02-28
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The second of five readings online (between January & May 2024) from the four essays in Ruskin’s seminal work on political economy, Unto This Last, published in 1862.
An outcry against injustice and inhumanity, the book was hard-hitting enough to cause a huge storm of indignant opposition in Britain when it was published and it marked a key shift in the public understanding of Ruskin as a trenchant and, as it turned out, prophetic social critic. His fierce assault on the prevailing business practices that underpinned the new mercantile wealth that unfettered industrial capitalism was enabling in Victorian Britain, remains as relevant today, in a world of gross inequality, exploitation and environmental degradation, as it was in his time.
Considered by Ruskin as one of his most important works, Unto This Last argues that economics, art and science must have a foundation in morality. Over five sessions, a variety of voices read from the four essays that make up the work that best expands on the central statement of Ruskin’s philosophy, 'There is no Wealth but Life.'
With speakers Julia Bolton Holloway, Peter Burman, Arjun Shivaji Jain, Frances O'Connor and Helen Parker, all Companions of the Guild.
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