A multi-volume collection nearing completion
Writers, politics and the conditions of freedom
Poets, Politics & Philosophy brings major writers and political thinkers into conversation with the present. Each volume combines a complete original work with editorial commentary, philosophical analysis and a modern response.
Volumes in the collection
Volume One · Oscar Wilde
The Individual Against Authority
Oscar Wilde, Socialism and The Soul of Man under Socialism
Volume Two · John Ruskin
What Is Wealth For?
John Ruskin, Political Economy and Unto This Last
The four essays, with editorial commentary, philosophical analysis and a modern response.
Volume Three · Virginia Woolf
Beyond the Room
Virginia Woolf, Material Freedom and A Room of One’s Own
Including Virginia Woolf’s complete 1929 text, with original commentary, philosophical analysis and a modern response.
Volume Four · Oscar Wilde
Intentions
The Philosophy of Artifice
The complete book, with editorial commentary, philosophical analysis and a modern response.
Volume Five · Edward Carpenter
Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure
The Philosophy of the Common Life
Selected essays, with editorial commentary, philosophical analysis and a modern response.
Edited and interpreted by Dr IP Loftus.
A collection close to completion
The framework can be extended as each further volume is finalised. It allows every book to retain its own title and argument while making the collection’s shared concern with freedom, creativity, political economy and the common life clear.
As publication approaches, this page will carry new extracts, commentary and updates from the collection.