Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man

About Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man

“(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.” Published originally as “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” this is not so much a work of sober political analysis; rather it can be summed up as a rhapsodic manifesto on behalf of the Individual. Socialism having deployed technology to liberate the whole of humanity from soul-destroying labour, the State obligingly withers away to allow the free development of a joyful, anarchic hedonism... “Is this Utopian? A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.” Far from abandoning the epigram in favour of the slogan, Wilde wittily assails several of his favourite targets: the misguided purveyors of philanthropy; life-denying ascetics of various kinds; the army of the half-educated who constitute themselves the enemies of Art - and those venal popular journalists who cater to them... “Behind the barricade there may be much that is noble and heroic. But what is there behind the leading-article but prejudice, stupidity, cant, and twaddle?” (Introduction by Martin Geeson)

Publisher

Oscar Wilde

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Jun 2026

Latest episode

2 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   2 Jun 2026

   Section 1

2. 

   2 Jun 2026

   Section 3

3. 

   2 Jun 2026

   Section 6

4. 

   2 Jun 2026

   Section 5

5. 

   2 Jun 2026

   Section 2

6. 

   2 Jun 2026

   Section 4

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