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Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of George Bernard Shaw
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Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of George Bernard Shaw Hardcover - 1992

by Gareth Griffith

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Available in paperback for the first time, Gareth Griffith's book provides a comprehensive critical account of the political ideas of one of the most influential commentators of the twentieth century.
With close reference to a range of Shaw's texts, from the Fabian tracts to the plays, Gareth Griffith draws out the central theoretical messages of Shaw's engagement with politics. The first part of the book provides an intellectual biography, while at the same time analysing Shaw's key concerns in relation to his Fabianism, arguments for equality of income and ideas on democracy and education. Part Two looks at those areas which Shaw approached as long-standing historical problems or dramas requiring immediate thought or action; sexual equality, the Irish question, war, fascism and sovietism.
The book is directed to the general reader as well as to specialists. It will be central reading for anyone seeking to understand Shaw's life, and literary and political writings, or the development of political thinking in this century, or the problems and potential inherent in socialism.

First line

Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856 into a Protestant family in financial decline: he was 'a downstart and the son of a downstart'; his class was that ephemeral social entity known as 'the Shabby Genteel, the Poor Relations, the Gentlemen who are no Gentlemen' (Shaw 1930: viii).

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  • Title Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of George Bernard Shaw
  • Author Gareth Griffith
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 316
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, Great Britain
  • Date 1992-12-03
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780415082815 / 0415082811
  • Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.91 cm)
  • Reading level 1380
  • Library of Congress subjects Social problems in literature, Shaw, Bernard - Political and social views
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92019483
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.912

About the author

Gareth Griffith is Senior Research Officer at the New South Wales State Parliament Library.

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