Our culture, what's left of it : the mandarins and the masses /
Dalrymple, Theodore.
Our culture, what's left of it : the mandarins and the masses / Theodore Dalrymple. - Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2005. - xi, 341 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes index. CW017 "Most of the contents of this book first appeared in City journal, published by The Manhattan Institute"--T.p. verso.
Arts and letters. The frivolity of evil -- A taste for danger -- Why Shakespeare is for all time -- Sex and the Shakespeare reader -- What's wrong with twinkling buttocks? -- The rage of Virginia Woolf -- How--and how not--to love mankind -- A neglected genius -- The dystopian imagination -- A lost art -- Gillray's ungloomy morality -- Trash, violence, and Versace: but is it art? -- Society and politics. What we have to lose -- How to read a society -- Why Havana had to die -- The uses of corruption -- The goddess of domestic tribulations -- The starving criminal -- Don't legalize drugs -- All sex, all the time -- Who killed childhood? -- A horror story -- The man who predicted the race riots -- When Islam breaks down -- The barbarians at the gates of Paris -- After empire.
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Dalrymple, Theodore.
Culture--Philosophy
Physicians--Great Britain
Prison physicians--Great Britain
Social problems.
Civilization, Modern.
Cultural studies
Great Britain--Civilization--1945-
/ .D35 2005
306
Our culture, what's left of it : the mandarins and the masses / Theodore Dalrymple. - Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2005. - xi, 341 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes index. CW017 "Most of the contents of this book first appeared in City journal, published by The Manhattan Institute"--T.p. verso.
Arts and letters. The frivolity of evil -- A taste for danger -- Why Shakespeare is for all time -- Sex and the Shakespeare reader -- What's wrong with twinkling buttocks? -- The rage of Virginia Woolf -- How--and how not--to love mankind -- A neglected genius -- The dystopian imagination -- A lost art -- Gillray's ungloomy morality -- Trash, violence, and Versace: but is it art? -- Society and politics. What we have to lose -- How to read a society -- Why Havana had to die -- The uses of corruption -- The goddess of domestic tribulations -- The starving criminal -- Don't legalize drugs -- All sex, all the time -- Who killed childhood? -- A horror story -- The man who predicted the race riots -- When Islam breaks down -- The barbarians at the gates of Paris -- After empire.
9781566636438 1566636434 9781566637213 156663721X
2004027150
Dalrymple, Theodore.
Culture--Philosophy
Physicians--Great Britain
Prison physicians--Great Britain
Social problems.
Civilization, Modern.
Cultural studies
Great Britain--Civilization--1945-
/ .D35 2005
306