1st Edition
Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of George Bernard Shaw
By Gareth Griffith
Copyright 1993
320 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction Part I 1 SHAW’S FABIANISM 2 SHAVIAN SOCIALISM Part II 3 SEXUAL EQUALITY 4 THE IRISH QUESTION 5 WAR AND PEACE 6 FASCISM AND SOVIETISM Part III 7 CONCLUSION
Biography
Gareth Griffith is Senior Research Officer at the New South Wales State Parliament Library.
`Such a study as Gareth Griffith's is long overdue and the result has been worth waiting for: a masterly study, comprehensive, sensitive ... so well written as to be The Intelligent Socialist's Guide to Shaw.' - Bernard Crick in the New Statesman
