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Sto caricando le informazioni... Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses (2005)di Theodore Dalrymple
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a fascinating book by a right-leaning British doctor. His take on crime and the poor is very interesting, though I don't agree with all of his conclusions. It's well worth reading for one view of what the future holds for 'civilization' as we know it. ( ) Interesante colección de ensayos del autor, un médico que anduvo por todo el mundo (o, al menos, por los países sobre los que escribe). Resalto lo reconfortante del hecho de que una persona con conocimiento de causa in situ, sea la que esté detrás de este tipo de libros; en lugar de la aburguesada inteliguentsia refugiada en la comodidad de sus penthouses céntricos. Theodore posee también amplios conocimientos de literatura y arte; de hecho, estas temáticas son las que ocupan las páginas más interesantes de esta recopilación. Por otro lado, en lo que concierne al aspecto socioeconómico no termino de comulgar con sus ideas; incluso en un par de pasajes sentí lo que las nuevas generaciones llaman cringe. A pesar de ello, me sigue pareciendo una lectura muy positiva y recomendable, tanto por la calidad de información y la experiencia de primera mano, como por la falta de pelos en la lengua de este escritor. Ensayos recomendados: «Why Shakespeare is for all time», «The rage of Virginia Woolf», «When Islam breaks down» y «How -and how not- to love mankind» nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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. It suggests comparison with the work of George Orwell. In these twenty-six pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the breakdown of Islam to the legalization of drugs. Informed by years of medical practice in a wide variety of settings, his acquaintance with the outer limits of human experience allows him to discover the universal in the local and the particular, and makes him impatient with the humbug and obscurantism that have too long marred our social and political life. As in Life at the Bottom, his essays are incisive yet undogmatic, beautifully composed and devoid of disfiguring jargon. Our Culture, What's Left of It is a book that restores our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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