Philip Conford
Biographic Data
| ID | 5894636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Conford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Conford |
| SIGNATURE | CONFORD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Commentary
T. S. Eliot dedicated Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948) to Philip Mairet, “in gratitude and admiration”, but this tribute from such an eminent figure has not saved Mairet from languish
Saturated with Biological Metaphors’
The connections between the British organic movement and the radical Right in the 1930s and 1940s are now well documented. One major reason for this convergence is what the philosopher John Macmurray termed ‘the organic analogy’: the interpretation of human life and society in purely biological terms. This article outlines Macmurray's critique of the analogy; it summarises his reasons for believing that it led in practice to racialist totalitaria…
Somewhere Quite Different’
This paper takes as its starting-point different perspectives on the organic movement's history since the 1940s. It identifies the polarised views of those who see a linear continuity in its development and of others who claim that a new generation of ‘counter-urbanites’ in the 1970s introduced an entirely distinct element. Drawing on recorded interviews with several of the leading figures in the seventies generation, the article argues that this…
A ‘Secret Society’? The Internal and External Relations of the Kinship in Husbandry, 1941–52
First meeting in September 1941, the Kinship in Husbandry was a group of twelve men concerned for the future of English rural life in the post-war world and determined to communicate their vision of a revitalised countryside. Central to this vision were an agriculture based on organic principles and a rural culture which would encourage craftsmanship while drawing spiritual sustenance from a Christianity reconnected with nature. This paper traces…
Finance versus Farming
The early organic movement was closely connected with the crusade for monetary reform, since it was felt that Britain's agriculture and rural life could not be revived without challenging the vested interests of banking and the import-export trades. This paper focuses on the work of the Economic Reform Club and Institute (ERCI) from the 1930s to the 1950s, revealing the major part played in its activities by leading organicists. First, it identif…
The Alchemy of Waste
When Jean Valjean, the hero of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, evades captivity by disappearing into the Paris sewers, the author relaxes the narrative tension for nearly twenty pages in order to reflect on the harm caused by that city's waste-disposal methods. In doing so, he identifies what were to become, several decades later, central issues of concern for the British organic husbandry movement. With an artist's insight Hugo recognised that the…
The Alchemy of Waste
When Jean Valjean, the hero of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, evades captivity by disappearing into the Paris sewers, the author relaxes the narrative tension for nearly twenty pages in order to reflect on the harm caused by that city's waste-disposal methods. In doing so, he identifies what were to become, several decades later, central issues of concern for the British organic husbandry movement. With an artist's insight Hugo recognised that the…
Saturated with Biological Metaphors’
The connections between the British organic movement and the radical Right in the 1930s and 1940s are now well documented. One major reason for this convergence is what the philosopher John Macmurray termed ‘the organic analogy’: the interpretation of human life and society in purely biological terms. This article outlines Macmurray's critique of the analogy; it summarises his reasons for believing that it led in practice to racialist totalitaria…
Somewhere Quite Different’
This paper takes as its starting-point different perspectives on the organic movement's history since the 1940s. It identifies the polarised views of those who see a linear continuity in its development and of others who claim that a new generation of ‘counter-urbanites’ in the 1970s introduced an entirely distinct element. Drawing on recorded interviews with several of the leading figures in the seventies generation, the article argues that this…
A ‘Secret Society’? The Internal and External Relations of the Kinship in Husbandry, 1941–52
First meeting in September 1941, the Kinship in Husbandry was a group of twelve men concerned for the future of English rural life in the post-war world and determined to communicate their vision of a revitalised countryside. Central to this vision were an agriculture based on organic principles and a rural culture which would encourage craftsmanship while drawing spiritual sustenance from a Christianity reconnected with nature. This paper traces…
Finance versus Farming
The early organic movement was closely connected with the crusade for monetary reform, since it was felt that Britain's agriculture and rural life could not be revived without challenging the vested interests of banking and the import-export trades. This paper focuses on the work of the Economic Reform Club and Institute (ERCI) from the 1930s to the 1950s, revealing the major part played in its activities by leading organicists. First, it identif…
The Alchemy of Waste
When Jean Valjean, the hero of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, evades captivity by disappearing into the Paris sewers, the author relaxes the narrative tension for nearly twenty pages in order to reflect on the harm caused by that city's waste-disposal methods. In doing so, he identifies what were to become, several decades later, central issues of concern for the British organic husbandry movement. With an artist's insight Hugo recognised that the…
Finance versus Farming
The early organic movement was closely connected with the crusade for monetary reform, since it was felt that Britain's agriculture and rural life could not be revived without challenging the vested interests of banking and the import-export trades. This paper focuses on the work of the Economic Reform Club and Institute (ERCI) from the 1930s to the 1950s, revealing the major part played in its activities by leading organicists. First, it identif…
A ‘Secret Society’? The Internal and External Relations of the Kinship in Husbandry, 1941–52
First meeting in September 1941, the Kinship in Husbandry was a group of twelve men concerned for the future of English rural life in the post-war world and determined to communicate their vision of a revitalised countryside. Central to this vision were an agriculture based on organic principles and a rural culture which would encourage craftsmanship while drawing spiritual sustenance from a Christianity reconnected with nature. This paper traces…
Saturated with Biological Metaphors’
The connections between the British organic movement and the radical Right in the 1930s and 1940s are now well documented. One major reason for this convergence is what the philosopher John Macmurray termed ‘the organic analogy’: the interpretation of human life and society in purely biological terms. This article outlines Macmurray's critique of the analogy; it summarises his reasons for believing that it led in practice to racialist totalitaria…
Somewhere Quite Different’
This paper takes as its starting-point different perspectives on the organic movement's history since the 1940s. It identifies the polarised views of those who see a linear continuity in its development and of others who claim that a new generation of ‘counter-urbanites’ in the 1970s introduced an entirely distinct element. Drawing on recorded interviews with several of the leading figures in the seventies generation, the article argues that this…
Commentary
T. S. Eliot dedicated Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948) to Philip Mairet, “in gratitude and admiration”, but this tribute from such an eminent figure has not saved Mairet from languish
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