Perfection, the State, and Victorian Liberalism

by Daniel S. Malachuk

Book Overview

This book recovers and recommends the core conviction of Victorian liberal theory that human beings, with the help of the state, can achieve an objective moral perfection. The first half of the book considers the diverse modern biases that have blinded us to the merit of this core conviction and weaves together disparate new scholarship (primarily in political theory and Victorian Studies) to set the stage for a reconsideration of that conviction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134953062X
• ISBN13: 9781349530625
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"