In Colonial Desire, Robert Young demonstrates the influence of the racial theories of Ernst Renan on this book's dichotomy between the forces of Hellenism and Hebraism. This book indicts society for worshipping freedom withou
In Colonial Desire, Robert Young demonstrates the influence of the racial theories of Ernst Renan on this book's dichotomy between the forces of Hellenism and Hebraism. This book indicts society for worshipping freedom without adequately considering the ends of freedom in its second chapter, entitled "Doing As One Likes." The first chapter takes its title from the fable of the spider and the bee from Jonathan Swift's The Battle of the Books, and it also popularized Swift's phrase "sweetness and light." This book traces the origin of the desire to see things as they are, or "scientific passion," and desire to do good, or "social passion." Its preface defines the first title concept as the "pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know ...the best which has been thought and said in the world." Famously using the term "Philistines" to describe the Victorian middle class, FTP, identify this "essay in political and social criticism," written by Matthew Arnold.
In Colonial Desire, Robert Young demonstrates the influence of the racial theories of Ernst Renan on this book's dichotomy between the forces of Hellenism and Hebraism.
Culture and Anarchy