Idea Of England Research Articles

The idea of Britain in eighteenth-century Ireland and Scotland

The idea of Britain in eighteenth-century Ireland and Scotland

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ALIENATION: KARL MARX AND ADAM SMITH 1

KARL Marx's philosophical and sociological critique of capitalism centred upon alleged deleterious effects of the market economy upon the worker's inner life as distinct from his 'economic' well-being. The development of private property capitalism and the division of labour caused workers to become degraded or dehumanized, and to reach a state of affairs which is summarized under his oft-used term 'alienation' ('Entfremdung'). Although this concept, which is now the subject of a voluminous sociological, philosophical, psychological, and political literature, has clear Hegelian/ Marxian roots there are important traces of it in earlier writers. It still comes as a surprise to many people when they learn that the first writer to make use of the idea in Britain was Adam Smith. Meanwhile, among those who have for a long time known about Smith's views on 'alienation', there are several scholars who are now confidently drawing from them conclusions to the effect that the Wealth of Nations was an important precursor of Marxist socialism.2 The purpose of the present paper is to draw attention to several misunderstandings in popular beliefs concerning the 'similarity' between the Marxian and Smithian treatment of 'alienation'. A secondary purpose is to reapply the discipline of political economy to a subject which in the twentieth century seems to have become the exclusive province of the other social sciences. In comparing Smith's treatment of 'alienation' with that of Marx we shall not confine ourselves to one source of writing from each author but draw widely from their total works. The first part of the paper

Lamennais and England. The Reception of Lamennais's Religious Ideas in England in the Nineteenth Century

Lamennais and England. The Reception of Lamennais's Religious Ideas in England in the Nineteenth Century

Review. Lamennais and England: The Reception of Lamennais's Religious Ideas in England in the Nineteenth Century. Roe, W. G.

Journal Article REVIEWS Get access Lamennais and England: The Reception of Lamennais's Religious Ideas in England in the Nineteenth Century. By W. G. ROE. (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs). London: Oxford University Press. 1966. viii + 241 pp. 38s. D. G. CHARLTON D. G. CHARLTON WARWICK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXI, Issue 4, October 1967, Pages 363–365, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXI.4.363 Published: 01 October 1967

Lamennais and England: The Reception of Lamennais's Religious Ideas in England in the Nineteenth Century

Lamennais and England: The Reception of Lamennais's Religious Ideas in England in the Nineteenth Century

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Book reviewed in this article: Essays on Old Testament History and Religion. By Albrecht Alt. Translated by R. A. Wilson. Deuteronomy. By Gerhard von Rad. Translated by Dorothea Barton. The Resurrection of Christ. By S. H. Hooke. Interpreting the Resurrection. By Neville Clark. The Resurrection in the Plan of Salvation. By Joseph Comblin. Studies in the Apostolic Fathers and their Background. By L. W. Barnard. Early Christian Thought and the Classical Tradition: Studies in Justin, Clement and Origen. By Henry Chadwick. Justin Martyr: His Life and Thought. By L. W. Barnard. Éphrem de Nisibe: Commentaire de l'Évangile Concordant ou Diatessaron. Translated by Louis Leloir, o.s.b. Ministère et Sainteté. By Rémi Crespin. The Desert a City. By Derwas J. Chitty. The Theology of Unity. By Muhammad‘Abduh. Translated from the Arabic by Ishaq Musa'ad and Kenneth Cragg. Baptism Today and Tomorrow. By G. R. Beasley‐Murray. The Vision of the Past. By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Translated by J. M. Cohen. Man's Place in Nature. By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Translated by René Hague. Teilhard de Chardin and the Mystery of Christ. By Christopher F. Mooney, s.j. The Church in the thought of Bishop John Robinson. By Richard P. McBrien. Opera Omnia. By Henry More. Edited with an Introduction by Serge Hutin. Vol. I: Henry More. By Serge Hutin. Throne and Altar. The Political and Religious Thoughr of Joseph de Maistre. By Richard Allen Lebrun. Lamennais and England. The Reception of Lamennais's Religious Ideas in England in the Nineteenth Century. By W. G. Roe. The Church of England 1900–1965. By Roger Lloyd. Uses of Sociology. Edited by J. D. Halloran and Joan Brothers.

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Journal Article REVIEWS Get access Lamennais and England: The Reception of Lamennais's Religious Ideas in England in the Nineteenth Century. By W. G. ROE. (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs). London: Oxford University Press. 1966. viii + 241 pp. 38s. D. G. CHARLTON D. G. CHARLTON WARWICK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXI, Issue 4, October 1967, Pages 363–365, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXI.4.363 Published: 01 October 1967

The Market for Strategic Ideas in Britain: The “Sandys Era”

Britain and the United States have long taken an intense mutual interest in the methods by which they arrive at a defense policy and the two countries have frequently borrowed from each other's experience. In the last few years the British scene has been worthy of special attention because Britain has faced, in a peculiarly acute form, the universal military problem of limited resources and extensive commitments. Recently Conservative governments have tried to resolve this dilemma by plunging heavily for certain strategies and weapons: as a Minister of Defence told the Commons, “We have to pick the winners out of the stable.”To set a crude financial ceiling and leave the selection of strategy and design of forces wholly to bargaining among the services is frequently regarded as an invitation to aimlessness. An obvious and tempting remedy is to compel the services to conform to a single, coherent and supposedly economical strategic doctrine. This solution carries its own risks of neglecting important aspects of the total problem and of discouraging flexible response to experience. Such a risk is especially serious in a field, such as military policy in peacetime, where there can rarely be conclusive practical tests of policy. Thus the more one searches for comprehensive strategic answers, the more important it is to enquire whether strategic ideas are debated in a market wide and open enough to offer every possible assurance of conceiving and evaluating alternatives. The recent course of British policy is of interest in this respect.