Author: Allen Mendenhall
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739186345
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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The economic theories of Karl Marx and his disciples continue to be anthologized in books of literary theory and criticism and taught in humanities classrooms to the exclusion of other, competing economic paradigms. Marxism is collectivist, predictable, monolithic, impersonal, linear, reductive — in short, wholly inadequate as an instrument for good in an era when we know better than to reduce the variety of human experience to simplistic formulae. A person’s creative and intellectual energies are never completely the products of culture or class. People are rational agents who choose between different courses of action based on their reason, knowledge, and experience. A person’s choices affect lives, circumstances, and communities. Even literary scholars who reject pure Marxism are still motivated by it, because nearly all economic literary theory derives from Marxism or advocates for vast economic interventionism as a solution to social problems. Such interventionism, however, has a track-record of mass murder, war, taxation, colonization, pollution, imprisonment, espionage, and enslavement — things most scholars of imaginative literature deplore. Yet most scholars of imaginative literature remain interventionists. Literature and Liberty offers these scholars an alternative economic paradigm, one that over the course of human history has eliminated more generic bads than any other system. It argues that free market or libertarian literary theory is more humane than any variety of Marxism or interventionism. Just as Marxist historiography can be identified in the use of structuralism and materialist literary theory, so should free-market libertarianism be identifiable in all sorts of literary theory. Literature and Liberty disrupts the near monopolistic control of economic ideas in literary studies and offers a new mode of thinking for those who believe that arts and literature should play a role in discussions about law, politics, government, and economics. Drawing from authors as wide-ranging as Emerson, Shakespeare, E.M. Forster, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Henry Hazlitt, and Mark Twain, Literature and Liberty is a significant contribution to libertarianism and literary studies.
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher:
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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Author: Robert Green 1833-1899 Ingersoll
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781374267176
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337768454
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Category : Gift books
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: John Henry Hopkins
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610164040
Category : Austrian school of economics
Languages : en
Pages : 531
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Author: Angie Nongthombam
Publisher: Verses Kindler Publication
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
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an anthology by 31 talented writers whose content ranges from short stories to poems and articles all very well written and heart-touching. these “litterateurs” weren’t given a specific topic to write on thereby extending their “liberty” to whatever they want to invest their creativity in. hence, we present “Litterateur with Liberty”.
Author: William Ross Wallace
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Delve into the symbolism of William Ross Wallace's "The Liberty Bell." This classic piece captures the significance of the Liberty Bell, a symbol of freedom in American history. Wallace's poetic prowess brings to life the essence of liberty and the sacrifices made to achieve it.
