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Culture and Anarchy - An Essay in Political and Social Criticism - cover

Culture and Anarchy - An Essay in Political and Social Criticism

Matthew Arnold

Casa editrice: The Arnold Press

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Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and SocialCriticism is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867–68 and collected as a book in 1869. The preface was added in 1869.Arnold's famous piece of writing on culture established his High Victorian cultural agenda which remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s. According to his view advanced in the book, "Culture [...] is a study of perfection". He further wrote that: "[Culture] seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light [...]".
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