Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader

by John Jay Chapman

Book Overview

In this collection of his essays and a sampling of his letters, John Jay Chapman (1862-1933) embraces the world at large. Predicting the depersonalization of twentieth-century society, Chapman argues that a civilization based upon a commerce which is in all its parts corruptly managed will present a social life which is unintelligent and mediocre, made up of people afraid of each other, whose ideas are shopworn, whose manners are self-conscious. Chapman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025206724X
• ISBN13: 9780252067242
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"