Book: 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
Details of Book: Lives Of The Mind: The Use And Abuse Of Intelligence From Hegel To Wodehouse Book: Lives Of The Mind: The Use And Abuse Of Intelligence From Hegel To Wodehouse
Author: Roger Kimball
ISBN: 1566635241
ISBN-13: 9781566635240
, 978-1566635240
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 2003/12/01
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Number of Pages: 384
Language: English