Maurice Cowling's first two books appeared in 1963, when he also became a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. Thirty years later this volume brings together a group of pupils, admirers and critics who have contributed essays dealing with facets of what Cowling calls "public doctrine" in modern British history, together with critical assessments of his writing. The book aims to be as unsycophantic, rebarbative and diverting as its dedicatee, while offering something genuinely worthwhile to all readers interested in recent historical and current intellectual tendencies in England.
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"Much is made at the outset of this volume about Cowling's loathing of Festschriften and the likelihood of his loathing this one especially. This collection of essays, however, by seriously engaging broad issues relating to Christian doctrine in public life and by their worrying of ideas (another Petrean tradition) rather than seeking elegance of expression, embodies attributes that the honoree, if only in the fastness of his rooms, should find satisfying." John D. Fair, Albion
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Maurice Cowling's first two books appeared in 1963, when he also became a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. Thirty years later this volume brings together a group of pupils, admirers and critics who have contributed essays dealing with facets of what Cowling calls 'public doctrine' in modern British history, together with critical assessments of his writing.The book aims to be as unsycophantic, rebarbative and diverting as its dedicatee, while offering something genuinely worthwhile to all readers interested in recent historical and current intellectual tendencies in England.
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In the most directly polemical of his books, Mill and Liberalism (1963), Maurice Cowling described Mill as 'a proselytizer of genius: the ruthless denigrator of existing positions, the systematic propagator of a new moral purpose'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Maurice Cowling, Island of Sheep, John Buchan, The Age of Reason, Frederick Temple, United States, Lloyd George, Age of Atonement, Our Inheritance, Service of Our Lives, Boyd Hilton, Church of England, Edmund Burke, First World War, House of Commons, The American Crisis, Edinburgh Review, Michael Bentley, Winston Churchill, Adam Smith, Cavalier Parliament, High Tories, Peel Papers, Quarterly Review, Rhodes James New!
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In the most directly polemical of his books, Mill and Liberalism (1963), Maurice Cowling described Mill as 'a proselytizer of genius: the ruthless denigrator of existing positions, the systematic propagator of a new moral purpose'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unsigned obituary notice, public doctrine, spiritual glue, regius chair, confessional state Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maurice Cowling, Island of Sheep, John Buchan, The Age of Reason, Frederick Temple, United States, Lloyd George, Age of Atonement, Our Inheritance, Service of Our Lives, Boyd Hilton, Church of England, Edmund Burke, First World War, House of Commons, The American Crisis, Edinburgh Review, Michael Bentley, Winston Churchill, Adam Smith, Cavalier Parliament, High Tories, Peel Papers, Quarterly Review, Rhodes James New!
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- Mill and Liberalism by Maurice Cowling on 11 pages
- The Island of Sheep (Oxford World's Classics) by John Buchan on 9 pages
- Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England: Volume 1 (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics) (v. 1) by Maurice Cowling on 6 pages
- The Impact of Hitler: British Politics and British Policy, 1933-1940 (Phoenix Book; P747) by Maurice Cowling on 6 pages
- Men and Deeds by John Buchan on 6 pages
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- Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England: Liberal Anglicanism Theories of the State between the Wars (Oxford Historical Monographs) by Matthew Grimley on 4 pages
- Ideologies of Conservatism: Conservative Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century by E. H. H. Green on page 152, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ideologies of Conservatism: Conservative Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century by E. H. H. Green on page 152, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation of the 1870s (Oxford Historical Monographs) by Mark Curthoys on page 21, and Back Matter
- Englishness and the Study of Politics: The Social and Political Thought of Ernest Barker (Ideas in Context) by Julia Stapleton on page 156, and Back Matter
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