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Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age
Roger Kimball
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Description for Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age
Paperback. Displays the sophistication, breadth of knowledge, and clarity of argument of Mr Kimball. This book shows how the work of several authors can be seen as efforts to articulate a convincing alternative to the intellectual and spiritual desolations of the age. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 143 x 24. Weight in Grams: 390.
Confronting the dilemmas of modernist and postmodernist thought, Roger Kimball in this new collection of his work explores the literary and philosophical underpinnings of modernity as well as the state of our culture today. Experiments Against Reality displays the sophistication, breadth of knowledge, and clarity of argument that have made Mr. Kimball one of the most trenchant critics of our contemporary culture. He begins by considering the influential poet and theorist T. E. Hulme, and shows how the work of Eliot, Auden, Wallace Stevens, Robert Musil, Elias Canetti, and others can be seen as efforts to articulate a convincing alternative ... Read more
Confronting the dilemmas of modernist and postmodernist thought, Roger Kimball in this new collection of his work explores the literary and philosophical underpinnings of modernity as well as the state of our culture today. Experiments Against Reality displays the sophistication, breadth of knowledge, and clarity of argument that have made Mr. Kimball one of the most trenchant critics of our contemporary culture. He begins by considering the influential poet and theorist T. E. Hulme, and shows how the work of Eliot, Auden, Wallace Stevens, Robert Musil, Elias Canetti, and others can be seen as efforts to articulate a convincing alternative ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566634304
SKU
V9781566634304
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Ref
99-15
About Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball is managing editor of the New Criterion and an art critic for the London Spectator. His other books include Lives of the Mind, Experiments Against Reality, The Long March, and Tenured Radicals. He lives in South Norwalk, Connecticut.
Reviews for Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age
Will be required reading for those who want a significant perspective on how and why our contemporary culture got to be the way it is.
Frederick Morgan Stylish, richly allusive, and immensely readable...an invaluable collection.
John Gross One of the most candid and perceptive critics of American culture.
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Times Literary Supplement
A model ... Read more
Frederick Morgan Stylish, richly allusive, and immensely readable...an invaluable collection.
John Gross One of the most candid and perceptive critics of American culture.
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Times Literary Supplement
A model ... Read more