Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse
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
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Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse
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
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Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse
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ISBN-13: | 9781566634793 |
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Publisher: | Dee, Ivan R. Publisher |
Publication date: | 09/06/2002 |
Pages: | 384 |
Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 8.64(h) x 1.29(d) |
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