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Culture and Anarchy (1869)

Culture and Anarchy (1869). Concepts from Matthew Arnold’s Social Criticism. Matthew arnold. Conditions to which arnold responded. Industrial Revolution Isolation, the fragmentation of the populace Political turmoil (working class riots)

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Culture and Anarchy (1869)

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  1. Culture and Anarchy (1869) Concepts from Matthew Arnold’s Social Criticism

  2. Matthew arnold

  3. Conditions to which arnold responded • Industrial Revolution • Isolation, the fragmentation of the populace • Political turmoil (working class riots) • An incurious (uncultured) middle class that was rapidly gaining political power • Failing public education system

  4. Culture = an inward perfection and A common good (1596) • Hellenism • Intellectual curiosity for its own sake (1595) • Spontaneity of consciousness • Appreciation of Sweetness & Light (Beauty and Understanding) (1596) • Humanism with a civic (NATIONAL) focus (1596) • Motivated to elevate the populace (1596) • Re-unify our fragmented Nation (1600)

  5. Machinery = the modern mindset that devalues culture (1597, 1598) • Hebraism • Strictness of conscience • Right conduct – Emphasis on Action without Self-Reflection • “The one thing necessary” • “Doing As One Likes” (1597) • Utilitarianism with a narrow self-interest (1597) • No sense of Duty or Discipline (1598)

  6. Hebraism & Hellenism • Must be joined (wholeness and unity) (1601-02) • For sake of Prosperity (“Progress”) (1604)

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