1907. A study in social evolution. The author believes there exists a great number of intermediate types between the normal man and the normal woman, meaning a feminine body with the mind and feelings being masculine or vice versa. Divided into two parts: Part 1 is entitled the Intermediate in the Service of Religion, and Part 2 is the Intermediate as Warrior. Chapters are entitled: Part 1: as prophet or priest; as wizard or witch; as inventors of the arts and crafts; hermaphrodism among gods and mortals; Part 2: Dorian military comradeship; its relation to the status of woman; its relation to civic life and religion; samurai of Japan, their ideal.
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"Edward Carpenter was an English socialist poet, anthologist, early homosexual activist, and socialist philosopher.
A leading figure in late 19th- and early 20th-century Britain, he was instrumental in the foundation of the Fabian Society and the Labour Party. A poet and writer, he was a close friend of Walt Whitman and Rabindranath Tagore, corresponding with many famous figures such as Annie Besant, Isadora Duncan, Havelock Ellis, Roger Fry, Mahatma Gandhi, James Keir Hardie, J K Kinney, Jack London, George Merrill, E D Morel, William Morris, E R Pease, John Ruskin, and Olive Schreiner.
As a philosopher he is particularly known for his publication of Civilisation, its Cause and Cure in which he proposes that civilisation is a form of disease that human societies pass through. Civilisations, he says, rarely last more than a thousand years before collapsing, and no society has ever passed through civilisation successfully. His 'cure' is a closer association with the land and greater development of our inner nature. Although derived from his experience of Hindu mysticism, and referred to as 'mystical socialism', his thoughts parallel those of several writers in the field of psychology and sociology at the start of the twentieth century, such as Boris Sidis, Sigmund Freud, and Wilfred Trotter who all recognised that society puts ever increasing pressure on the individual that can result in mental and physical illnesses such as neurosis, and the particular nervousness which was then described as neurasthenia.
A strong advocate of sexual freedom, living in a gay community near Sheffield, he had a profound influence on both D H Lawrence and E M Forster.
He was also the first person to introduce the wearing of sandals into Britain." (Quote from wikipedia.org) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"Edward Carpenter was an English socialist poet, anthologist, early homosexual activist, and socialist philosopher.
A leading figure in late 19th- and early 20th-century Britain, he was instrumental in the foundation of the Fabian Society and the Labour Party. A poet and writer, he was a close friend of Walt Whitman and Rabindranath Tagore, corresponding with many famous figures such as Annie Besant, Isadora Duncan, Havelock Ellis, Roger Fry, Mahatma Gandhi, James Keir Hardie, J K Kinney, Jack London, George Merrill, E D Morel, William Morris, E R Pease, John Ruskin, and Olive Schreiner.
As a philosopher he is particularly known for his publication of Civilisation, its Cause and Cure in which he proposes that civilisation is a form of disease that human societies pass through. Civilisations, he says, rarely last more than a thousand years before collapsing, and no society has ever passed through civilisation successfully. His 'cure' is a closer association with the land and greater development of our inner nature. Although derived from his experience of Hindu mysticism, and referred to as 'mystical socialism', his thoughts parallel those of several writers in the field of psychology and sociology at the start of the twentieth century, such as Boris Sidis, Sigmund Freud, and Wilfred Trotter who all recognised that society puts ever increasing pressure on the individual that can result in mental and physical illnesses such as neurosis, and the particular nervousness which was then described as neurasthenia.
A strong advocate of sexual freedom, living in a gay community near Sheffield, he had a profound influence on both D H Lawrence and E M Forster.
He was also the first person to introduce the wearing of sandals into Britain." (Quote from wikipedia.org) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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THAT between the normal man and the normal woman there exist a great number of intermediate types-types, for instance, in which the body may be perfectly feminine, while the mind and feelings are decidedly masculine, or vice versa-is a thing which only a few years ago was very little understood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
military comradeship, cloth gilt, female attire Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dorian Greeks, Addington Symonds, Greek Ethics, Inazo Nitobe, Professor Bethe, Elie Reclus, Richard Burton New!
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THAT between the normal man and the normal woman there exist a great number of intermediate types-types, for instance, in which the body may be perfectly feminine, while the mind and feelings are decidedly masculine, or vice versa-is a thing which only a few years ago was very little understood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
military comradeship, cloth gilt, female attire Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dorian Greeks, Addington Symonds, Greek Ethics, Inazo Nitobe, Professor Bethe, Elie Reclus, Richard Burton New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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