What's Wrong with the World

"What's Wrong with the World" is a book written by G.K. Chesterton in which he critiques various aspects of modern society and offers his own solutions to its problems. The book covers topics such as education, economics, politics, and religion, among others. Chesterton argues that many of the issues facing society are rooted in a lack of understanding of human nature and a failure to recognize the importance of traditional values and institutions. He advocates for a return to these principles as a way to address the problems he sees in the world.

By G.K. Chesterton · First published 1910 · Genre: Non-fiction, Philosophy, Social Criticism · 49 chapters · 66,197 words

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A book of modern social inquiry has a shape that is somewhat sharply defined. It begins as a rule with an analysis, with statistics, tables of population, decrease of crime among Congregationalists, growth of hysteria among policemen, and similar ascertained facts; it ends with a chapter that is generally called "The Remedy. " It is almost wholly due to this careful, solid, and scientific method that "The Remedy" is never found. For this scheme of medical question and answer is a blunder; the first great blunder of sociology. It is always called stating the disease before we find the cure. But it is the whole definition and dignity of man that in social matters we must actually find the cure before we find the disease.

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• Work type: Novel
• Author: G.K. Chesterton
• Date: 1910 CE
• Language: English
• Genres: Non-fiction, Philosophy, Social Criticism, Political Commentary, Essay
• Length: 66,197 words
• Structure: 49 chapters, 476 paragraphs
• Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)

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Genres

• Non-fiction — The book is a collection of essays discussing social and political issues.
• Philosophy — It explores philosophical themes related to society and human nature.
• Social Criticism — The work critiques contemporary social structures and norms.
• Political Commentary — It provides commentary on political ideologies and systems.

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philosophy · sociology · politics · critique · society · morality · ethics · culture · human nature · individualism · community · social justice

Contents

• The Medical Mistake
• The Charm of Jingoism
• The Unmilitary Suffragette
• The Calvinism of to-Day
• The Empire of the Insect
• On Female Suffrage
• Wanted, an Unpractical Man
• Wisdom and the Weather
• The Universal Stick
• The Tribal Terror
• The Fallacy of the Umbrella Stand
• On Cleanliness in Education
• The New Hypocrite
• The Common Vision
• The Emancipation of Domesticity
• The Tricks of Environment
• The Dreadful Duty of Gudge
• On Peasant Proprietorship
• The Fear of the Past
• The Insane Necessity
• The Romance of Thrift
• The Truth about Education
• A Last Instance
• The Unfinished Temple
• The Coldness of Chloe
• An Evil Cry
• Conclusion
• The Enemies of Property
• The Pedant and the Savage
• Authority the Unavoidable
• The Free Family
• The Modern Surrender of Woman
• The Humility of Mrs. Grundy
• The Wildness of Domesticity
• The Brand of the Fleur-De-Lis
• The Broken Rainbow
• History of Hudge and Gudge
• Sincerity and the Gallows
• The Need for Narrowness
• Oppression by Optimism
• The Higher Anarchy
• The Case for the Public Schools
• The Homelessness of Jones
• The Queen and the Suffragettes
• The School for Hypocrites
• The Modern Slave
• The Staleness of the New Schools
• The Outlawed Parent
• Folly and Female Education

More by G.K. Chesterton

• Milton: Man and Poet (1936)
• The Sword of Wood (1928)
• Leo Tolstoy (1903)
• Lord Kitchener (1917)
• St. Thomas Aquinas (1933)
• Tales of the Long Bow (1936)
• The Everlasting Man (1925)
• The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926)
• All works by G.K. Chesterton