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The Stigma of Its Present Name: Matthew Arnold's Scripts of State KU Leuven
Famously impatient with the English inability or refusal to entertain the notion of the State, Matthew Arnold has been characterised as one of the ideological precursors of the Welfare State. Testing the validity of this claim requires a careful comparative consideration of what welfare means and of what Arnold envisages as the province of the State, which in turn requires a sustained inquiry into Arnold’s State tropology. A striking feature of ...