Social Criticism : : The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice and Other Essays / / Stephen Leacock; ed. by Alan Bowker.
Stephen Leacock, long celebrated as Canada's foremost humorist and social satirist, has received little recognition for his considerable accomplishments as a serious thinker and social critic. In fact, Leacock was a professor of political economy, and more than half of his writings addressed th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1973 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (145 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- An introduction
- Selected Bibliography
- Postscript
- Greater Canada: an appeal
- Literature and education in America
- The apology of a professor: an essay on modern learning
- The devil and the deep sea: a discussion of modern morality
- The woman question
- The tyranny of prohibition
- The unsolved riddle of social justice
- 1. The troubled outlook of the present hour
- 2. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
- 3. The failures and fallacies of natural liberty
- 4. Work and wages
- 5. The land of dreams: the Utopia of the socialist
- 6. How Mr Bellamy looked backwards
- 7. What is possible and what is not