Earth-Hunger and Other Essays (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

William Graham Sumner

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330636961 ISBN 13 : 9781330636961

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Liberty, Labor, and the Social Order examines how our social institutions, contracts, and culture shape real freedom and the dignity of work.

This collection argues that liberty is tied to how a society organizes itself, not to a simple absence of rules. The essays challenge easy answers about work and rights. They explore how capital, industry, and evolving social norms affect how people live, labor, and find meaning within a community. The author questions traditional ideas about labor’s status and looks at the larger system that makes toil either painful or purposeful.

• Clear explanations of how social arrangements limit or expand freedom.
• A thoughtful look at the dignity of work across different classes and eras.
• Critiques of utopian promises and reflections on real-world institutions.
• Historical context for debates about labor, capitalism, and responsibility.

Ideal for readers seeking thoughtful, accessible discussions about freedom, work, and the institutions that bind society together.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

During the three years now elapsed since the publication of War and Other Essays, it has become increasingly clear to the publishers and to the editor of that collection that their original enterprise should be followed up by another volume or two. There remain a number of Professor Sumner sshorter productions which have never been printed or which have been published in obscure, scattered, or inaccessible places. I feel this need of extending our enterprise the more strongly because I believe that a great deal of Sumner swriting has not grown old, and is not destined to grow old. It has been impressed upon me, as I have become more familiar with his essays of twenty and thirty years ago, that the issues which he treated, as he treated them, are always and everywhere with us. They are not of one time or one place. They are always with us because they are part of what Sumner so often calls life here on earth. It was given to him to seize upon social issues in their essential and vital bearings; the blade of his insight never stuck in the husk of a matter. Now it has seemed to me, in my own experience with Sumner, and in my teaching, that such an attitude toward the questions of societal life is, for the young at least, the one best adapted to open wrench open, if you will the gates of the mind and introduce the impulse to independent thinking.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330636961
• ISBN 13: 9781330636961
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 391
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