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... by means of the electronic media , in George Steiner's reflections on the supersession of individual awareness ; and in Marcuse's analysis of the “ happy consciousness ' , where a vast complex of social controls maintains a state of ...
... by means of the electronic media , in George Steiner's reflections on the supersession of individual awareness ; and in Marcuse's analysis of the “ happy consciousness ' , where a vast complex of social controls maintains a state of ...
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He does , as Goode points out , indulge in a certain sleight of hand when he insists on seeing liberalism as not a political view or even a mode of social and economic organisation but rather a state of mind ' ; the connections between ...
He does , as Goode points out , indulge in a certain sleight of hand when he insists on seeing liberalism as not a political view or even a mode of social and economic organisation but rather a state of mind ' ; the connections between ...
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Evelyn Waugh's narrator in Brideshead Revisited , for instance , gives no sign of recognising how immensely important to him is the social life he describes to us , and what obsessional anxieties it causes him .
Evelyn Waugh's narrator in Brideshead Revisited , for instance , gives no sign of recognising how immensely important to him is the social life he describes to us , and what obsessional anxieties it causes him .
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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