The Fortunes of Permanence

Roger Kimball

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Edité par St Augustine PressInc, 2012

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collectors copy - unread - like new ?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 things happen. Young shoots might need stakes and watch out for beetles weeds and unseasonable frosts. It's a complicated business. But at least since Cicero introduced the term cultura animi ?cultivation of the mind or spirit? such ?cultural instructions? have applied as much to the realm of civilization as to horticulture. In this wide-ranging investigation into the vicissitudes of culture in the twenty-first century the distinguished critic Roger Kimball traces the deep filiations between cultivation as a spiritual enterprise and the prerequisites of political freedom. Drawing on figures as various as James Burnham Richard Weaver G. K. Chesterton Rudyard Kipling John Buchan Friedrich von Hayek and Leszek Kolakowski Kimball traces the interconnections between what he calls the fortunes of permanence and such ambassadors of anarchy as relativism multiculturalism and the socialist-utopian imperative. With his signature blend of wit and erudition Kimball deftly draws on the resources of art literature and political philosophy to illuminate some of the wrong turns and dead ends our culture has recently pursued while also outlining some of the simple if overlooked alternatives to the various tyrannies masquerading as liberation we have again and again fallen prey to. This rich rewarding and intelligent volume bristles with insights into what the nineteenth-century novelist Anthony Trollope called ?The Way We Live Now.? Partly an exercise in cultural pathology The Fortunes of Permanence is also a forward-looking effort of cultural recuperation. It promises to be essential reading for anyone concerned about the direction of Western culture in an age of anti-Western animus and destructive multicultural fantasy. | Pages: 347.…

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Titre
The Fortunes of Permanence
Auteur
Roger Kimball
Éditeur
St Augustine PressInc
Année de publication
2012
État de l'article
Fine
Reliure
Hardcover/Hardback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1587312565
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781587312564

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