The Politics of Sex and Other Essays : On Conservatism, Culture and Imagination

On Conservatism Culture and Imagination

By: R. Grant

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Hardcover | 1 June 2000 | Edition Number 1

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These essays cover topics as radically diverse as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Vaclav Havel, The Magic Flute and Viz magazine. All have been published before, and many have already proved controversial. The author, a leading Oakeshott scholar, contributes frequently to the TLS . Witty, moving and erudite, his prose is also conspicuously graceful and clear. This collection is addressed as much to the educated general reader as to the academic specialist. It includes an otherwise almost unobtainable exchange with Sir Isaiah Berlin.

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'...Robert Grant is...certainly a fine essayist, indeed he is a read find with a view, as the title of this collection of essays suggests, on the Big Issues.' - James Le Fanu, The Tablet

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Foreword	p. ix
Author's Preface	p. xiv
Practice versus Theory	p. 1
Conservatism: an Outline	p. 3
Edmund Burke	p. 10
Michael Oakeshott	p. 23
The Unknown Oakeshott	p. 40
Writers and Ideology: Three Case Studies	p. 50
Vaclav Havel	p. 50
Raymond Williams	p. 53
Salman Rushdie and the Politics of Credulity	p. 55
The Disenchanted Flute: Opera and the Rule of the Concept	p. 59
Culture and Society	p. 75
On Culture	p. 77
The Politics of Sex	p. 88
The Politics of Death	p. 102
Culture, Technology and Value	p. 115
Organic Society: a Note	p. 125
Four Cheers for Normality	p. 127
Arnold's Cultural Politics	p. 127
The Politics of Soap	p. 130
In Defence of Viz	p. 132
A Voice from the Fringe: Jim Rose	p. 139
Home Truths: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the House Beautiful	p. 145
The Truth of Fiction	p. 161
Religion, Art and the Limits of the Sayable	p. 163
Statecraft and Metapolitics in Shakespeare	p. 170
Jane Austen: Ethics and Social Order	p. 184
Trollope, Tact and Virtue	p. 196
Tolstoy and Enlightenment: an Exchange with Isaiah Berlin	p. 201
Aerodromes and Aspidistras: the Worlds of Thirties Fiction	p. 212
The Survivor's Guilt: Wiesel and Sciascia on Terror and the Holocaust	p. 217
Index	p. 223
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