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dc.contributor.author	Tizot Jean-Yves
dc.title	Ruskin in Translation: Versions of Unto this Last in a Few Europeans Languages. Toward a Reception History of John Ruskin’s Social Thought
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dc.description.abstract	The article proposes to review the reception and transmission of John Ruskin’s social thought as expressed in Unto this Last (1862), translated and edited in different European languages. The text itself offers little room for variation, so that interpretations are voiced mainly in the editors’ introductions or afterwords, when they exist. This study finds that very few foreign versions do justice to Ruskin’s radicalism in his anti-capitalist and anti-industrial critique of modern society, his rejection of ‘progress’ and his refutation of political economy, while most take advantage of the occasion to express their own political and social views, often in blatant betrayal of Ruskin’s ideas.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sources, Literatures, Arts & Landscapes of Europe
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-15
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dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-487-5/023
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dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-487-5
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dc.subject	Anti-capitalism
dc.subject	Anti-capitalism
dc.subject	Anti-industrialism
dc.subject	Anti-industrialism
dc.subject	Anti-machinism
dc.subject	Anti-machinism
dc.subject	Christian socialism
dc.subject	Christian socialism
dc.subject	Degrowth
dc.subject	Degrowth
dc.subject	Democratic Liberal
dc.subject	Democratic Liberal
dc.subject	Interpretation
dc.subject	Interpretation
dc.subject	Liberal Italy
dc.subject	Liberal Italy
dc.subject	Liberalism
dc.subject	Liberalism
dc.subject	Marx
dc.subject	Marx
dc.subject	Marxism
dc.subject	Marxism
dc.subject	Political economy
dc.subject	Political economy
dc.subject	Radicalism
dc.subject	Radicalism
dc.subject	Ruskin
dc.subject	Ruskin
dc.subject	Social change
dc.subject	Social change
dc.subject	Social reform
dc.subject	Social reform
dc.subject	Socialism
dc.subject	Socialism
dc.subject	Translation
dc.subject	Translation
dc.subject	Unto this Last
dc.subject	Unto this Last
dc.subject	Version
dc.subject	Version

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Ruskin in Translation: Versions of Unto this Last in a Few Europeans Languages

Toward a Reception History of John Ruskin’s Social Thought

Jean-Yves Tizot Université Grenoble Alpes, France

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The article proposes to review the reception and transmission of John Ruskin’s social thought as expressed in Unto this Last (1862), translated and edited in different European languages. The text itself offers little room for variation, so that interpretations are voiced mainly in the editors’ introductions or afterwords, when they exist. This study finds that very few foreign versions do justice to Ruskin’s radicalism in his anti-capitalist and anti-industrial critique of modern society, his rejection of ‘progress’ and his refutation of political economy, while most take advantage of the occasion to express their own political and social views, often in blatant betrayal of Ruskin’s ideas.

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Dec. 15, 2020

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978-88-6969-488-2

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978-88-6969-487-5

Keywords: Christian socialism • Marx • Marxism • Degrowth • Socialism • Anti-machinism • Version • Ruskin • Democratic Liberal • Anti-industrialism • Social reform • Interpretation • Anti-capitalism • Political economy • Social change • Unto this Last • Radicalism • Liberal Italy • Translation • Liberalism

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