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Our crisis of foundations: what Tom Wolfe's novel, among other things, brings to mind.(Essay)(Critical Essay)
MY colleague Jonah Goldberg, speaking at a recent panel discussion in which we were both participating, remarked that modern democracy is sorely in need of a metaphysic. That put me in mind of one of Aldous Huxley's aphorisms. In his 1937 essay "Beliefs," Huxley said, "It is impossible to live without a metaphysic. The choice that is given us is not between some kind of metaphysic and no metaphysic; it is always between a good metaphysic and a bad metaphysic, a metaphysic that corresponds reasonably closely with observed and inferred reality and one that doesn't."
Why am I raising such ethereal matters? In recent days, I have read Tom Wolfe's new novel, I Am ...
- Tom Wolfe's `Charlotte Simmons' begs the question ... where's the rest of the...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) February 16, 2005 700+ words
...Reardon College _ as Tom Wolfe reports it in "I Am Charlotte Simmons" _ is one long party...in the classroom. His Charlotte Simmons is a brilliant but astonishingly...social chronicler, "Charlotte Simmons" has been greeted as...
- Books: Hot stuff from modern master; TOM WOLFE I Am Charlotte Simmons (Jonathan...
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) November 28, 2004 700+ words
Byline: LORNE JACKSON TOM Wolfe is an elegant dandy who happens...realism. His third novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons, continues this adherence to the...CAPTION(S): TRADITIONAL STYLE: Tom Wolfe's latest offering is an old...
- Essential at Wolfe's door.(Essential Entertainment to produce Tom Wolfe's I Am...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety McNary, Dave April 29, 2008 700+ words
...Entertainment is financing a bigscreen version of Tom Wolfe's "I Am Charlotte Simmons," with Liz Friedlander ("Take the Lead...s Jere Hausfater exec producing. "I Am Charlotte Simmons" centers on an Ivy League student who must...
- Tom Wolfe's American Ubermensch: I Am Charlotte Simmons and the rhetoric of...
- Magazine article from: Papers on Language & Literature Hawkins, Ty September 22, 2007 700+ words
I Tom Wolfe's most recent book, I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004), is a...because of it--Charlotte Simmons's critical reception...Scrupski writes that Charlotte Simmons lays bare the limits...painful to see Tom Wolfe point out to them...
- Tom Wolfe: I am Charlotte Simmons.(English Books)
- Magazine article from: Swiss News November 1, 2005 700+ words
...Man in Full" returns with another novel, this one set at Dupont University, where an innocent college freshman named Charlotte Simmons learns that her intellegence alone will not help her survive. ISBN 0-09-948379-3, SFr 15.30
- Tom Wolfe: Regresa al campus.(El Angel)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) June 26, 2005 700+ words
...divertida novela de Tom Wolfe, Soy Charlotte Simmons, la humilde y...reportero. Y en Soy Charlotte Simmons, no pierde ocasin...ESPN, en fin. Tom Wolfe ha transitado siempre...Visto as, Soy Charlotte Simmons sera la tercera...
- Tom Wolfe delivers an interesting book, but not a great one.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Guinn, Jeff November 25, 2004 700+ words
...Guinn ``I Am Charlotte Simmons'' by Tom Wolfe; Farrar...in 1998), Tom Wolfe has now given...in "I Am Charlotte Simmons," Wolfe...storyteller, Tom Wolfe can do a lot...than "I Am Charlotte Simmons." For a...
- You Know What? Tom Wolfe Book Is Lots Of Fun.(TheFrontPage)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) November 15, 2004 700+ words
...Begley I am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe. Farrar...tome, I am Charlotte Simmons survived the...fact that Tom Wolfe has served...marks." Charlotte Simmons--who clings...look for in a Tom Wolfe novel...
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