Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses - Couverture rigide

Dalrymple, Theodore

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1566636434 ISBN 13 : 9781566636438

Editeur : Ivan R Dee, Inc, 2005

Synopsis

Our Culture, What's Left of It Presents a collection of essays which ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, and from the breakdown of Islam to the legalization of drugs. This book attempts to restore our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This new collection of essays by the author of "Life at the Bottom", bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. In these pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the breakdown of Islam to the legalization of drugs. Here is a book that restores our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization. Theodore Dalrymple is the best doctor-writer since William Carlos Williams and Peggy Noonan. His work includes "When Islam Breaks Down", named the best journal article of 2004 by David Brooks of the "New York Times".

Biographie de l'auteur :

Theodore Dalrymple is a British doctor and writer who has worked on four continents and has recently retired from practice in a British inner-city hospital and a prison. He has written a column for the London Spectator and is a contributing editor for City Journal in the United States. He lives in Banne, France.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ivan R Dee, Inc
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1566636434
• ISBN 13: 9781566636438
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 356