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The Politics of Sex and Other Essays: On Conservatism, Culture and Imagination
Robert Grant
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Description for The Politics of Sex and Other Essays: On Conservatism, Culture and Imagination
hardcover. These essays cover topics as diverse as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Vaclav Havel, "The Magic Flute" and "Viz" magazine. All have been published before, and many have already proved controversial. This collection is addressed as much to the educated general reader as to the academic specialist. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 505.
These essays cover topics as radically diverse as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Václav Havel, The Magic Flute and Viz magazine. All have been published before, and many have already proved controversial. The author, a leading Oakeshott scholar, contributes frequently to the TLS . Witty, moving and erudite, his prose is also conspicuously graceful and clear. This collection is addressed as much to the educated general reader as to the academic specialist. It includes an otherwise almost unobtainable exchange with Sir Isaiah Berlin.
These essays cover topics as radically diverse as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Václav Havel, The Magic Flute and Viz magazine. All have been published before, and many have already proved controversial. The author, a leading Oakeshott scholar, contributes frequently to the TLS . Witty, moving and erudite, his prose is also conspicuously graceful and clear. This collection is addressed as much to the educated general reader as to the academic specialist. It includes an otherwise almost unobtainable exchange with Sir Isaiah Berlin.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333760062
SKU
V9780333760062
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About Robert Grant
ROBERT GRANT is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. A Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge from 1970 to 1973, he has lately (1999) been Visiting Research Fellow at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He is the author of Oakeshott, and of nearly one hundred essays, articles and reviews. He is a ... Read more
Reviews for The Politics of Sex and Other Essays: On Conservatism, Culture and Imagination
'...Robert Grant is...certainly a fine essayist, indeed he is a read find with a view, as the title of this collection of essays suggests, on the Big Issues.' - James Le Fanu, The Tablet