Our culture, what's left of it : the mandarins and the masses / Theodore Dalrymple.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2005.Description: xi, 341 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781566636438
- 1566636434
- 9781566637213
- 156663721X
- City journal (New York, N.Y.)
- 306
- .D35 2005
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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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