Ruskin's romantic triangle: neither wealth nor beauty but life

Yuichi Shionoya ()
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Yuichi Shionoya: Hitotsubashi University, Japan

History of Economic Ideas, 2014, vol. 22, issue 1, 15-50

Abstract: Most Ruskin studies deal with his art theory and economic theory separately. This article intends to interpret both discourses in a unified way from the viewpoint of romanticism. While his economic theory is famously summarized in a thesis «No Wealth but Life», the art theory he worked on can be formalized as a thesis ‘No Beauty but Life’. Thus we have a unified thesis ‘Neither Wealth nor Beauty but Life’, which may be called ‘Ruskin’s triangle’. I argue that the concept of Life is vital for Ruskin’s unified knowledge; it is identified with its three aspects (Capability, Composition, and Labour) and linked with its six symbolic determinants (Admiration, Hope and Love; Air, Water and Earth).

Date: 2014
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