Philistinism
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In the fields of philosophy and of aesthetics, the term philistinism describes the attitudes, habits, and characteristics of a person who deprecates art, beauty, spirituality, and intellect. As a dero
The British poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold adapted the German word Philister to English as the word philistine to denote anti-intellectualism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe described the philistine personality. (Goethe in the Roman Campagna, 1786, by J. H. W. Tischbein)
The novelist Ödön von Horváth chronicled the coarseness of affect that limited the worldview of the bourgeoisie. (ca. 1919)
Vladimir Nabokov described the natures of philistinism and of the philistine. (1973)
Middlemarch
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Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. It appeared in eight paper-bound instalments from December 1871 to December 1872, wit
Title page of the first edition, 1871–1872
George Eliot
Dorothea Brooke and Will Ladislaw
Mary Garth and Fred Vincy