Seamus Flaherty
Biographic Data
| ID | 3980078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seamus Flaherty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seamus |
| FAMILY NAME | Flaherty |
| SIGNATURE | FLAHERTY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aldous Huxley
This article shows that in the years between 1937 and 1962 Aldous Huxley adopted a species of anarchism. It demonstrates, first, how in espousing gradualism and pacifism, in stressing the significance of education and meditation as agents of social change, in seeking to construct intentional communities in the here and now, as well as build on pre-existing examples of ‘anarchy in action’ such as consumer and producer cooperatives, in taking a mea…
Marx, Engels and Modern British Socialism
Morris, Mill, and Baudelaire
This article examines Oscar Wilde’s liberal socialist tract, ‘The Soul of Man Under Socialism’. It posits three discrete arguments. It argues, firstly, that in ‘The Soul of Man’ Wilde was deeply engaged with the socialist theory of William Morris. It claims that Wilde not only repudiated Morris’s aesthetic philosophy, rejecting Morris’s views about co-operation, usefulness, and tradition, and pouring scorn on the notion of dignity in manual labou…
The Machine Stops’
This article argues that E. M. Forster's dystopian science fiction story ‘The Machine Stops’ was conceived as a critique of H. G. Wells’ book, A Modern Utopia . The article shows how Forster responded to Wells’ utopia at almost every level. It demonstrates how the notion of making society function like a machine was an idea posited, if not implemented, by Wells. Forster sought to show how, rather than limiting pain, fear and anxiety, the machine‐…
H.M. Hyndman and the Intellectual Origins of the Remaking of Socialism in Britain, 1878–1881
In recent years, the historiography of late nineteenth-century British Socialism has reached a new level of sophistication. The determinism and essentialism that typified much of the work on the subject prior to the so-called linguistic turn in social history has been decisively dropped. This article, however, argues that the influence of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels still persists in two crucial respects. Firstly, it suggests that historians c…
Reappraising News From Nowhere
This article examines News from Nowhere , William Morris's late nineteenth-century utopian romance. It seeks, first, to establish John Stuart Mill as a crucial influence on the text. It argues that, in News from Nowhere , Morris engaged extensively with Mill's mid-century essay On Liberty . It shows how Morris dramatized Mill's “harm principle”; how he challenged the notion that custom must necessarily be antithetical to the “spirit of liberty”; …
H.M. Hyndman and the Intellectual Origins of the Remaking of Socialism in Britain, 1878–1881
In recent years, the historiography of late nineteenth-century British Socialism has reached a new level of sophistication. The determinism and essentialism that typified much of the work on the subject prior to the so-called linguistic turn in social history has been decisively dropped. This article, however, argues that the influence of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels still persists in two crucial respects. Firstly, it suggests that historians c…
Reappraising News From Nowhere
This article examines News from Nowhere , William Morris's late nineteenth-century utopian romance. It seeks, first, to establish John Stuart Mill as a crucial influence on the text. It argues that, in News from Nowhere , Morris engaged extensively with Mill's mid-century essay On Liberty . It shows how Morris dramatized Mill's “harm principle”; how he challenged the notion that custom must necessarily be antithetical to the “spirit of liberty”; …
Reappraising News From Nowhere
This article examines News from Nowhere , William Morris's late nineteenth-century utopian romance. It seeks, first, to establish John Stuart Mill as a crucial influence on the text. It argues that, in News from Nowhere , Morris engaged extensively with Mill's mid-century essay On Liberty . It shows how Morris dramatized Mill's “harm principle”; how he challenged the notion that custom must necessarily be antithetical to the “spirit of liberty”; …
H.M. Hyndman and the Intellectual Origins of the Remaking of Socialism in Britain, 1878–1881
In recent years, the historiography of late nineteenth-century British Socialism has reached a new level of sophistication. The determinism and essentialism that typified much of the work on the subject prior to the so-called linguistic turn in social history has been decisively dropped. This article, however, argues that the influence of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels still persists in two crucial respects. Firstly, it suggests that historians c…
Marx, Engels and Modern British Socialism
Morris, Mill, and Baudelaire
This article examines Oscar Wilde’s liberal socialist tract, ‘The Soul of Man Under Socialism’. It posits three discrete arguments. It argues, firstly, that in ‘The Soul of Man’ Wilde was deeply engaged with the socialist theory of William Morris. It claims that Wilde not only repudiated Morris’s aesthetic philosophy, rejecting Morris’s views about co-operation, usefulness, and tradition, and pouring scorn on the notion of dignity in manual labou…
The Machine Stops’
This article argues that E. M. Forster's dystopian science fiction story ‘The Machine Stops’ was conceived as a critique of H. G. Wells’ book, A Modern Utopia . The article shows how Forster responded to Wells’ utopia at almost every level. It demonstrates how the notion of making society function like a machine was an idea posited, if not implemented, by Wells. Forster sought to show how, rather than limiting pain, fear and anxiety, the machine‐…
Aldous Huxley
This article shows that in the years between 1937 and 1962 Aldous Huxley adopted a species of anarchism. It demonstrates, first, how in espousing gradualism and pacifism, in stressing the significance of education and meditation as agents of social change, in seeking to construct intentional communities in the here and now, as well as build on pre-existing examples of ‘anarchy in action’ such as consumer and producer cooperatives, in taking a mea…
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