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A Charitable Modernity: Milton And The Democratic Aesthetic, Jonathan Williams
A Charitable Modernity: Milton And The Democratic Aesthetic, Jonathan Williams
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This thesis traces a narrative of John Milton's modernity. My formulation of a
'charitable modernity' is a paradoxical one, and builds on Marshall Berman's theory of
modern life. Modernity is characterized by both disintegration and possibilities for
renewal. Charity, according to Milton, is the means by which different readers are
allowed to read different meanings into different texts. For Milton, a charitable modernity
is a promising thing, because it makes allowance for a democratic kind of government
where people are allowed to govern themselves in part by the way they each read texts
differently. Milton was not always a poet …
Is Work The Only Thing That Pays? The Guaranteed Income And Other Alternative Anti-Poverty Policies In Historical Perspective, Felicia Kornbluh
Is Work The Only Thing That Pays? The Guaranteed Income And Other Alternative Anti-Poverty Policies In Historical Perspective, Felicia Kornbluh
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
This paper examines the historical alternatives to welfare reform, namely the guaranteed income. This is, in a sense, the simplest possible approach to poverty, in that it proposes that each adult citizen receive a basic adequate income from a combination of market and state resources; if someone is not earning a wage, then she or he receives substantial support from the government and, in the case of a low wage, receives a smaller supplemental grant. The paper explores the meaning and history of the idea of a minimum income for all U.S. Citizens and argues that it was an object …