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Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse
Roger Kimball
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Hardcover. This book provides a sharply observed tour of Western intellectual and artistic aspiration. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPM; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 363.
Mr. Kimball, one of the best of our cultural critics, offers a lively and penetrating study of genius—and pseudo-genius—at work, and investigates the use and abuse of intelligence. Drawing on figures as various as Plutarch and Hegel, Kierkegaard and P.G. Wodehouse, Elias Canetti and Anthony Trollope, he provides a sharply observed tour of Western intellectual and artistic aspiration. A master of the genre, as collections of his pieces attest, none more impressively than this set. —Booklist Starred Review
Mr. Kimball, one of the best of our cultural critics, offers a lively and penetrating study of genius—and pseudo-genius—at work, and investigates the use and abuse of intelligence. Drawing on figures as various as Plutarch and Hegel, Kierkegaard and P.G. Wodehouse, Elias Canetti and Anthony Trollope, he provides a sharply observed tour of Western intellectual and artistic aspiration. A master of the genre, as collections of his pieces attest, none more impressively than this set. —Booklist Starred Review
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566634793
SKU
V9781566634793
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Reviews for Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse
Lives of the Mind is a work of generous humanity.
The Weekly Standard
Kimball does a very good job of integrating the lives of his subjects with the development of their ideas.
CHOICE
[Kimball] writes with verve and can unpack complex arguments and make them luminously clear….His work…is criticism at its best.
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The Weekly Standard
Kimball does a very good job of integrating the lives of his subjects with the development of their ideas.
CHOICE
[Kimball] writes with verve and can unpack complex arguments and make them luminously clear….His work…is criticism at its best.
New York Sun ... Read more