This book offers new perspectives on the origins and development of John Ruskinâs political thought. Graham A. MacDonald traces the influence of late medieval and pre-Enlightenment thought in Ruskinâs writing, reintroducing readers to Ruskinâs politics as shaped through his engagement with concepts of natural law, legal rights, labour and welfare organization. From Ruskinâs youthful studies of geology and chemistry to his back-to-the-land project, the Guild of St. George, he emerges as a complex political thinker, a reformerâand what we would recognize today as an environmentalist. John Ruskinâs Politics and Natural Law is a nuanced reappraisal of neglected areas of Ruskinâs thought.
