Searching for Eden John Steinbeck's Ethical Career |
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| Author:
| Timmerman, John H. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-88146-478-8 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2014 |
| Publisher: | Mercer University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $29.00USD $29.00 |
Book Description:
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Ethics for John Steinbeck always entailed justice. Justice is constituted of a communal spirit, a relational situation in which individual humans care for their fellows, and a state that champions the cause of the needy and outcast. Searching For Eden undertakes a careful analysis of how these ideas fluctuated at different points during Steinbeck's literary career. Of particular interet in this study are Steinbeck's latter years when his deepening political involvement and immersion in...
More DescriptionEthics for John Steinbeck always entailed justice. Justice is constituted of a communal spirit, a relational situation in which individual humans care for their fellows, and a state that champions the cause of the needy and outcast. Searching For Eden undertakes a careful analysis of how these ideas fluctuated at different points during Steinbeck's literary career. Of particular interet in this study are Steinbeck's latter years when his deepening political involvement and immersion in Arthurian myth shaped a changing ethic altogether.