Rob Riemen
Autore di La nobiltà di spirito. Elogio di una virtù perduta
Sull'Autore
Serie
Opere di Rob Riemen
Nexus 2 copie
Terugkeer naar de Toverberg 1 copia
Skola zivota 1 copia
Škola života: razgovori 1 copia
Strategieën van vergetelheid 1 copia
NEXUS 25 1 copia
Nexus nr.35 1 copia
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1962
- Attività lavorative
- essayist
oprichter/directeur Nexus Instituut in Tilburg - Breve biografia
- Zie www.robriemen.nl
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 30
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 392
- Popolarità
- #61,822
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 12
- ISBN
- 39
- Lingue
- 11
The rest I could honestly do without. The author suddenly shifts tone and perspective, writing more of a travel log than a political essay, complete with his musings and preferences on a couple elite European hotels. For the last 120 pages or so fascism and it's spread are only obliquely mentioned, the loss of morals, the decline of European values, and the spiritual bankruptcy of science and commerce take center stage instead. I found it difficult not to interpret this whole latter section of the book as merely the soliloquy of a conservative, upper class, Euro-centric academic, secure and sheltered in his ivory tower of grand hotel symposiums and conferences with like minded intellectuals. At it's very worst it reminded me of a common, irritating scenario in which an older individual lays out exactly what they think is wrong with the world today (overemphasis on speed and quantity, superficiality, addiction to immediate gratification, the examples in this book are so ubiquitous in today's society I need hardly list them,I could just as easily being the sentence "Kids these days..." and let you fill in the gaps with the same complaints we've all heard before), without a clear solution to these apparently evident problems let alone a word on how they relate to fascism. Needless to say It's not what I anticipated or care for and it makes for terribly dull reading.… (altro)