The Style and Mythology of Socialism: Socialist Idealism, 1871-1914

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-34880-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern History

Arguably no modern ideology has diffused as fast as Socialism. From the mid-nineteenth century to the last quarter of the twentieth socialist ideals played a crucial part not only in the political sphere, but also influenced the way people worked and played, thought and felt, designed and decorated, hoped and yearned. By proposing general observations on the relationship between socialism, imagination, myth and utopia, as well as bringing the late nineteenth century socialist culture – a culture imbued with Biblical narratives, Christian symbols, classic mythology, rituals from freemasonry, Viking romanticism, and utopian speculations – together under the novel term ‘socialist idealism’, The Style and Mythology of Socialism: Socialist Idealism, 1871–1914 draws attention to the symbolic, artistic and rhetorical ways that socialism originally set the hearts of people on fire.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arvidsson, Stefan (Linnaeus University, Sweden)

Arvidsson, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Concerning Socialists 2. Cultural Traditions and Mythic Politics 3. The Cultural Style of Socialism – Chronology: Socialist idealism 4. The Community of the Carpenter’s Son: The Knights of Labor I 5. Body and Symbol: The Knights of Labor II 6. Myth and Utopi 7. Socialist Beauty 8. Ideology and Care of the Soul 9. Socialist Idealism: its Character and Fall Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan Arvidsson is Professor in the History of Religions at Linnæus University, Sweden.