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Contentment in Contention

Acceptance versus Aspiration

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  • © 2012

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  1. Beverley Southgate
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Beverley Southgate
    Pages 1-18

  3. Contentment with ‘Reality’ and ‘Common-Sense’

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    Pages 19-41

  4. Contentment within Cages (i): Science, Ethics, Politics

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    Pages 42-60

  5. Contentment within Cages (ii): Language and History

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    Pages 61-83

  6. Cages: Dogmatism and Escape

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    Pages 84-102

  7. Antidote to Contentment: The Sublime

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    Pages 103-126

  8. Education for Contentment? Utility, Conformity, Dissent

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    Pages 127-151

  9. Conclusion

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    Pages 152-170

  10. Postscript

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    Pages 171-176

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 177-208
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About this book

Southgate draws on ideas within history, philosophy, literature, psychology, and theology to explore two traditions: contentment with our situation as it is, and the aspiration to transcend it. He discusses the possibility of escape from intellectual constraints, and advocates a positive 'duty of discontent', and its implications.

About the author

BEVERLEY SOUTHGATE Reader Emeritus in History of Ideas at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. His many publications include Postmodernism in History (2003), What is History For? (2005), and History Meets Fiction (2009). He is currently working on aspects of history's relationships with art.

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