Book description
First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto
this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political
economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a profoundly
conservative man who looked back to the Middle Ages as a Utopia, yet his
ideas had a considerable influence on the British socialist movement.
And in making his powerful moral and aesthetic case against the dangers
of unhindered industrialization he was strangely prophetic. This volume
shows the astounding range and depth of Ruskin's work, and in an
illuminating introduction the editor reveals the consistency of Ruskin's
philosophy and his adamant belief that questions of economics, art and
science could not be separated from questions of morality. In Ruskin's
words, 'There is no Wealth but Life.' John Ruskin (1819-1900) was an
artist, scientist, poet, environmentalist, philosopher, and the
pre-eminent art critic of his time.
