The Soul of Man Paperback - 2015

Name: The Soul of Man
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Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781517654665

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The Soul of Man
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) "(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are." Published originally as "The Soul of Man Under Socialism," this is not so much a work of sober political analysis; rather it can be summed up as a rhapsodic manifesto on behalf of the Individual. Socialism having deployed technology to liberate the whole of humanity from soul-destroying labour, the State obligingly withers away to allow the free development of a joyful, anarchic hedonism... "Is this Utopian? A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing." Far from abandoning the epigram in favour of the slogan, Wilde wittily assails several of his favourite targets: the misguided purveyors of philanthropy; life-denying ascetics of various kinds; the army of the half-educated who constitute themselves the enemies of Art - and those venal popular journalists who cater to them... "Behind the barricade there may be much that is noble and heroic. But what is there behind the leading-article but prejudice, stupidity, cant, and twaddle?"

Details

Title The Soul of Man
Author Oscar Wilde
Binding Paperback
Pages 34
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Date 2015-10-04
ISBN 9781517654665 / 1517654661
Weight 0.14 lbs (0.06 kg)
Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.08 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 0.20 cm)
Reading level 1110
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams and plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death.