The Authentic Tawney
A New Interpretation of the Political Thought of R.H. Tawney
Published on 16. November 2016
192 pages
978-1-84540-621-9 (ISBN)
Description
R.H. Tawney is an iconic thinker in British left-wing circles, whose writings during the early-mid 20th century helped to forge the direction of democratic socialist thinking and Labour Party policies.This book provides a fresh and accessible guide to the ideas of Tawney for new readers and to set straight the record of what Tawney's political thought really is, warts and all, in place of the rather over-simplified picture painted by the major commentators. It shows how Tawney's ideas changed over nearly 40 years of writing, as his own life experiences and the traumatic events of the two World Wars and their aftermaths drew him to a more secular and practical interpretation of politics.The book renders a service to scholarship, being based on original research, including examination of the Tawney Archive at the LSE, and makes use of unpublished works of Tawney.
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English
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Luton, Bedfordshire
United Kingdom
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0,87 MB
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978-1-84540-621-9 (9781845406219)
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The Authentic Tawney
A New Interpretation of the Political Thought of R.H. Tawney
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- The Authentic Tawney
- Introduction
- 1.1 Executive summary
- 1.2 Tawney's importance
- 1.3 A new approach to Tawney
- 1.4 Commentators who make the three erroneous assumptions of the essentialist approach to Tawney's political thought
- 1.5 Theoretical reasons for rejecting the three erroneous assumptions
- The Pre-First World War Unpublished Writings
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 The Commonplace Book (the Diaries, 1912-1914)
- 2.3 The New Leviathan (1910-1914)
- 2.4 Conclusion
- The Road to The Acquisitive Society
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Poverty as an Industrial Problem (1913)
- 3.3 The Attack (1916)
- Some Reflections of a Soldier (1916)
- 3.4 A National College of All Souls (1917)
- The Conditions of Economic Liberty (1918)
- 3.5 The Acquisitive Society (1921)
- 3.6 Conclusion
- Learning to Labour (1922-1925)
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Education: The Socialist Policy (1924)
- 4.3 The British Labour Movement (1925)
- 4.4 Conclusion
- Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Links between medieval scholasticism and Tawney's doctrines of Social Function and avarice
- 5.3 Post-medieval Church's capitulation to economic forces
- 5.4 The modern Church's attempt at renewal
- 5.5 Conclusion
- Equality (1931)
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 The concept of equal worth
- 6.3 The content of equality
- 6.4 The prospect for equality
- 6.5 Conclusion
- Tawney's Essays Between 1934 and 1937
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 The Choice Before the Labour Party (1934)
- 7.3 A Note on Christianity and the Social Order (1937)
- 7.4 Conclusion
- Writings from 1938-1952
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Revised edition of Equality (1938)
- 8.3 Why Britain Fights (1940)
- We Mean Freedom (1944)
- 8.4 Social Democracy in Britain (1949)
- British Socialism Today (1952)
- and the 1952 edition of Equality
- 8.5 Conclusion
- Conclusion
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Ethics
- 9.3 Democracy
- 9.4 Religion
- 9.5 Politics
- 9.6 Equality
- 9.7 Liberty
- 9.8 Implications for Tawney Studies
- Back Matter
- Bibliography
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