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Item Details
| Title:
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THE NEW PATRICIANS
AN ESSAY ON VALUES AND CONSCIOUSNESS |
| By: |
R. W. K. Paterson |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£66.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230371388 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230371385 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
27 May, 1998 |
| Synopsis: |
Expanding a set of values which the author styles 'patrician', this book is simultaneously a critique of 'plebeian' attitudes to life. The figures of 'the patrician' and 'the plebeian' do not represent different social classes, but are rather personifications of sharply contrasting beliefs and responses which any individual may evince. R.W.K. Paterson argues that the main issues we face are within our own consciousness and are to be resolved by transforming our self-images, rather than by changing the external world. Our experiences are not mere brute occurrences but are pregnant with symbolism, which we can construe to reveal hope, opportunity, and purposiveness, or meaninglessness, sterility, and disenchantment. This we do through our feelings and emotions, but above all through the quality and intensity of our imagination. The themes of the discussion are illustrated by five types of life-situation: democracy, change, solitude, luck, and death. Four paradigms of human achievement are chosen to demonstrate how a successful identity can be created across challenges: the Jester, the Poet, the Rebel, and the Hero. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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