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Published a century ago, Edward Carpenter's essay collection The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife remains amazingly relevant today. Carpenter argues that wealth inequality is the single most pressing social problem facing the world, causing numerous other woes ranging from war to crime to widespread psychological distress.
In the aftermath of the devastation caused by World War I, British poet, thinker and activist Edward Carpenter penned this impassioned plea to the world, imploring readers to band together in resistance against future global conflicts. It's a stirring and persuasive manifesto that anyone interested in the history of the period should read.
British philosopher and activist Edward Carpenter was decades ahead of his time when it came to sensitive subjects like gender relations, equal rights, and acceptance of a broad range of sexual proclivities. In this thought-provoking series of essays, Carpenter addresses the issue of marriage and what an ideal version of it would look like in a utopian society from which oppression and persecution had been eliminated.
British-born thinker and activist Edward Carpenter proposes a number of novel ideas in this engaging collection of essays. Chief among them is the notion that most of the civilized societies that have emerged throughout human history have crumbled after a period of centuries. Carpenter posits that "civilization" is a developmental phase that humankind must pass through in its evolution toward a truly enlightened state of being.
In this fascinating volume, English poet, philosopher and activist Edward Carpenter offers readers a sweeping theory of love and death that is informed by his knowledge of then-cutting-edge science. Drawing comparisons to the behaviors of simple organisms, animals, and past civilizations, Carpenter weaves a unified account of the meaning of life through the framework of these two cornerstones of human experience.
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