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Treason of the Intellectuals
Av Julien Benda, Roger Kimball
Inbunden, 2017
2760 kr
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Julien Benda's classic study of 1920s Europe resonates today. The "treason of the intellectuals" is a phrase that evokes much but is inherently ambiguous. The book bearing this title is well known but little understood. This edition is introduced by Roger Kimball.From the time of the pre-Socratics, …
Treason of the Intellectuals
Av Roger Kimball, Julien Benda
E-bok, 2017
779 kr
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Julien Benda''s classic study of 1920s Europe resonates today. The "treason of the intellectuals" is a phrase that evokes much but is inherently ambiguous. The book bearing this title is well known but little understood. This edition is introduced by Roger Kimball. From the time of the …
Treason of the Intellectuals
Av Roger Kimball, Julien Benda
E-bok, 2017
779 kr
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Julien Benda''s classic study of 1920s Europe resonates today. The "treason of the intellectuals" is a phrase that evokes much but is inherently ambiguous. The book bearing this title is well known but little understood. This edition is introduced by Roger Kimball. From the time of the …
Treason of the Intellectuals
Av Julien Benda, Roger Kimball
Häftad, 2006
754 kr
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Julien Benda's classic study of 1920s Europe resonates today. The "treason of the intellectuals" is a phrase that evokes much but is inherently ambiguous. The book bearing this title is well known but little understood. This edition is introduced by Roger Kimball.From the time of the pre-Socratics, …
Betrayal of Liberalism
How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control
Av Hilton Kramer, Roger Kimball
E-bok, 1999
236 kr
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In this incisive collection of essays which appeared originally in The New Criterion, ten distinguished critics and observers examine the origins and prospects of liberalism, from its roots in thinkers such as Rousseau and Mill to its troubled legacy in twentieth-century pursuits, and its …
Art's Prospect
The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity
Ljudbok, 2005
242 kr
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In this series of essays, Roger Kimball, managing editor of the New Criterion and an art critic for the London Spectator, illuminates some of the chief spiritual itineraries of modern art. His wide range of subjects includes Vincent van Gogh, Clement Greenberg, the Barnes Foundation, Matthew …
Long March
How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
Ljudbok, 2005
285 kr
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The architects of America’s cultural revolution of the 1960s were Beat authors like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and celebrated figures like Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, Eldridge Cleaver and Susan Sontag. In examining the lives and works of those who spoke for the 1960s, Roger Kimball …
Betrayal of Liberalism
How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control
Av Hilton Kramer, Roger Kimball
Häftad, 1999
220 kr
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In this incisive collection of essays which appeared originally in The New Criterion, ten distinguished critics and observers examine the origins and prospects of liberalism, from its roots in thinkers such as Rousseau and Mill to its troubled legacy in twentieth-century pursuits, and its …
Experiments Against Reality
The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age
Häftad, 2002
190 kr
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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, …
Survival of Culture
Permanent Values in a Virtual Age
Av Hilton Kramer, Roger Kimball
Häftad, 2002
177 kr
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Ten distinguished critics reflect on the direction of our society, emphasizing both the dangers that threaten our institutions and the vivifying survivals that are worthy of being cherished and nurtured. Contributors include Robert H. Bork, Anthony Daniels, Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer, Kenneth …
Lives of the Mind
The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse
Häftad, 2003
253 kr
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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 …
Future of the European Past
Av Hilton Kramer, Roger Kimball
Häftad, 2004
227 kr
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It is no longer news that the history of the European past and its role in shaping American cultural life is under severe attack. In virtually every university that offers a liberal arts curriculum, in every arts institution that deals with European classics, in the offices of every publication …
Tenured Radicals
How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education
Häftad, 2008
185 kr
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Since Tenured Radicals first appeared in 1990, it has achieved a stature as the leading critique of the ways in which the humanities are now taught and studied at American universities. Trenchant and witty, it lays bare the sham of what now passes for serious academic pursuit in too many circles. …
Long March
How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
E-bok, 2001
259 kr
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In The Long March, Roger Kimball, the author of Tenured Radicals, shows how the "cultural revolution" of the 1960s and ''70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and affecting our innermost assumptions about what counts as the good life. Kimball believes that the counterculture …
New Leviathan
The State Versus the Individual in the 21st Century
E-bok, 2012
345 kr
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The ideas and policies that are percolating down from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol Hill—increased government intervention, calls to “spread the wealth around,” onerous regulations, and bailouts for all—are not new. We’ve been down this road before. We know where it leads. It is that forlorn …
Future Tense
The Lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval
E-bok, 2012
311 kr
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We are living in an age of unprecedented upheaval. The future of Western culture is uncertain. America’s economic and political vitality are more fragile than ever. The preservation of tradition is far from guaranteed. Many have observed that we are living through a world historical moment of which …
Vox Populi
The Perils and Promises of Populism
E-bok, 2017
311 kr
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The rise of populist movements across the political spectrum poses a vital question: what role should populism play in modern democracy? In ten trenchant essays, the writers of The New Criterion examine the perils and promises of populism in Vox Populi , a new collection that marks the thirty-fifth …
Who Rules?
Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Fate of Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
E-bok, 2020
298 kr
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The populist phenomenon is often identified with the election of Donald Trump in November 2016. But the political, moral, and social realities for which Trump was a symbol both predated his candidacy and achieved independent fulfillment in countries as disparate as the United Kingdom, Hungary, and …
Critical Temper
Interventions from The New Criterion at 40
E-bok, 2021
478 kr
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On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, The New Criterion has brought together a plump chrestomathy of essays demonstrating its range and acuity as America’s foremost review of culture and the arts. With contributions by Bruce Bawer, Anthony Daniels, Denis Donoghue, Joseph Epstein, John Steele …
Where Next?
Western Civilization at the Crossroads
E-bok, 2022
382 kr
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At least since Oedipus met King Laius on the road from Delphi to Thebes, the image of a crossroads has signaled a dramatic and morally fraught turning point. It was with this cargo of significance in mind that The New Criterion published a special series of essays on “Western Civilization at the …
Long March
How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
Häftad, 2001
166 kr
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In The Long March, Roger Kimball, the author of Tenured Radicals, shows how the "cultural revolution" of the 1960s and '70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and affecting our innermost assumptions about what counts as the good life. Kimball believes that the counterculture …
Fortunes of Permanence – Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia
Inbunden, 2012
306 kr
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“Cultural instructions.” Everyone who has handled a package of seedlings has encountered that enigmatic advisory. This much water and that much sun, certain tips about fertilizer, soil, and drainage. Planting one sort of flower nearby keeps the bugs away but proximity to another sort makes bad …
Lengthened Shadows
America and Its Institutions in the Twenty-First Century
Av Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer
Häftad, 2005
158 kr
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In a series of penetrating reflections on the United States and its institutions in the post-9/11 world, this book offers some answers to questions that people at home and abroad have begun to ask about our country. How did it attain its international preeminence? What exactly is this richest, most …
Rape of the Masters
How Political Correctness Sabotages Art
Häftad, 2005
162 kr
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Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this witty and provocative book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be …
Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations
A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus
Av William F. Buckley Jr., Roger Kimball m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
300 kr
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For most of the last century, William F. Buckley Jr. was the leading figure in the conservative movement in America. The magazine he founded in 1955, National Review, brought together writers representing every strand of conservative thought, and refined those ideas over the decades that followed. …
Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations
A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus
Av William F. Buckley Jr., Linda Bridges m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
179 kr
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For most of the last century, William F. Buckley Jr. was the leading figure in the conservative movement in America. The magazine he founded in 1955, National Review, brought together writers representing every strand of conservative thought, and refined those ideas over the decades that followed. …
New Leviathan
The State Versus the Individual in the 21st Century
Inbunden, 2012
228 kr
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The ideas and policies that are percolating down from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol Hill--increased government intervention, calls to "spread the wealth around," onerous regulations, and bailouts for all--are not new. We've been down this road before. We know where it leads. It is that …
Future Tense
The Lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval
Inbunden, 2012
216 kr
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We are living in an age of unprecedented upheaval. The future of Western culture is uncertain. America's economic and political vitality are more fragile than ever. The preservation of tradition is far from guaranteed. Many have observed that we are living through a world historical moment of which …
Saving the Republic
The Fate of Freedom in the Age of the Administrative State
Inbunden, 2018
223 kr
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