The Ethics of the Dust

7 hrs. 11 min.

Language Russian

Author John Ruskin

Narrator Leontina Brotskaya

Description

“Ethics of Dust” (1866) is a treatise by the British art critic, writer, and social thinker John Ruskin, written in the form of Platonic dialogues between an old professor and his students. This unusual text serves as a kind of introduction to the problem of crystallization, a structural form characteristic of the world of objects that surrounds us, and it contains Ruskin’s ideas about the education system, the development of European fine arts and design, and the place of human beings in the world. The book was written following the lectures delivered in Oxford, Bradford, and Manchester in the 1860s.

Contents:

Preface
Characters
Conversation 1. Valley of diamonds
Conversation 2. Builders of pyramids
Conversation 3. The life of a crystal
Conversation 4. Forms of crystals
Conversation 5. Dignity of crystals
Conversation 6. Quarrels of crystals
Conversation 7. On home virtues
Conversation 8. Caprices of crystals
Conversation 9. Misfortunes of crystals
Conversation 10. Peace of crystals
Ruskin and the sand grains of Creation