The Culture We Deserve - Softcover

Barzun, Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819562378 ISBN 13: 9780819562371

Verlag: Wesleyan University Press, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Barzun Jacques

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Críticas:

"[Mr. Barzun] is in favor of intuition, spontaneity. He is against mindless support for and glorification of artists [and] the thoughtless corruption of language."--New York Times Book Review"[Barzun's] well-crafted essays...exalt Pascal's esprit de finesse, or 'intuitive understanding.'"--Washington Post Book World "In 12 wise, stimulating essays and lectures, a noted Columbia University scholar...examines aspects of literary and art criticism, retrospective sociology, the abandonment of intelligibility [and] the effects of relativism on moral behavior."--Publishers Weekly "[Mr. Barzun] is in favor of intuition, spontaneity. He is against mindless support for and glorification of artists [and] the thoughtless corruption of language."--New York Times Book Review "It is very hard for a reviewer to do justice to a book so fertile in ideas, so challenging, so crowded with unexpected yet relevant details...The Culture We Deserve is a self-interview responding to all your queries, even the ones you were not clever enough to ask...And all this in a style that is conversational but not chatty, lucid but not dry, civilized but not highfalutin."--John Simon, The American Spectator

Reseña del editor:

Twelve essays exploring aspects of literacy and art criticism, retrospective sociology and the effects of relativism on moral behavior.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0819562378
• ISBN 13: 9780819562371
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
• Herausgeber: Krystal Arthur