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Contentment in contention = acceptance versus aspiration /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Contentment in contention/ Beverley Southgate, Reader Emeritus in the History of Ideas, University of Hertfordshire, UK.
Reminder of title:	acceptance versus aspiration /
Author:	Southgate, Beverley C.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (pages cm.)
[NT 15003449]:	Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Epigram -- Introduction -- Contentment with 'Reality' and 'Common-sense' -- Contentment within Cages (i): Science, Ethics, Politics -- Contentment within Cages (ii): Language and History -- Cages: Dogmatism and Escape -- Antidote to Contentment: the Sublime -- Education for Contentment? Utility, Conformity, Dissent -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- -- --.
Subject:	Contentment. -
Online resource:	http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9780230360884
ISBN:	9780230360884 (electronic bk.)

Contentment in contention = acceptance versus aspiration /
Southgate, Beverley C.

Contentment in contentionacceptance versus aspiration /[electronic resource] :Beverley Southgate, Reader Emeritus in the History of Ideas, University of Hertfordshire, UK. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource (pages cm.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Epigram -- Introduction -- Contentment with 'Reality' and 'Common-sense' -- Contentment within Cages (i): Science, Ethics, Politics -- Contentment within Cages (ii): Language and History -- Cages: Dogmatism and Escape -- Antidote to Contentment: the Sublime -- Education for Contentment? Utility, Conformity, Dissent -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- -- --.

Whether to accept or to challenge conventional notions of 'reality' and 'common-sense' is a question that has beendebated since antiquity. Do we contentedly accept the 'cages' or constraints seemingly imposed by the human condition, as well as by the intellectual frameworks of science, language, history, and ethics? Or do we aspire to escape and transcend them in an endless quest for something preferable {esc}b6{esc}s some indefinable 'sublime'? Beverley Southgateexplores both traditions, identifying two seemingly distinct 'classes of men', variously exemplified by such thinkers as Aristotle and Plato, Bentham and Coleridge, Tolstoy and Nietzsche. Having its starting point in intellectual history, his investigation crosses disciplinary boundaries, drawing on evidence and ideas from philosophers, psychologists, theologians, novelists, poets, and artists. With its recommendation of continuing tension or (in Emerson's terminology) 'oscillation' between acceptance and aspiration, and its positive agenda for the humanities of a 'duty of discontent', this work has important practical implications for politics and education.

ISBN: 9780230360884 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613381439

Source: 537655Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

590372
Contentment.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BJ1533.C7 / S68 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 128

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