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Living Intelligence.("Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse")(Book Review)
Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse, by Roger Kimball (Ivan R. Dee, 384 pp., $28.95)
I was not far into this book when I experienced a totally unexpected emotion. From Roger Kimball, the managing editor of The New Criterion and distinguished critic of culture, art, and literature, I have come to expect spirited writing -- full of persuasive analysis, and of wit concentrated in apercus and crystallized in epigrams. And in this regard, I was certainly not disappointed by Kimball's new book. What I was unprepared for was the shock of spiritual relief.
Relief from what? In brief, the civilized seriousness of these ...
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- Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics Lewis, V. Bradley March 1, 2004 700+ words
KRAMER, Hilton, and Roger KIMBALL, editors. The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a...antagonists of traditional institutions and values. Finally, Roger Kimball fittingly recalls the original Ciceronian understanding of culture...
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- Newspaper article from: Burlington County Times December 15, 2008 700+ words
Roger Kimball may have tagged it first: The real news out of Chicago this week wasn't Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's arrest on cartoonishly...
- The title of Roger Kimball's essay in the June/July 2008 issue of First Things...
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- Magazine article from: National Review November 2, 2009 700+ words
Encounter books, under the leadership of the idea- and good idea-filled Roger Kimball, is now embarked on a project called "Encounter Broadsides": "a series of pamphlet-like essays," says the house, that...
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- Magazine article from: The Historian Steigerwald, David June 22, 2001 700+ words
...by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball. (Chicago: Ivan R...Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball have gathered a fine...influence of Rousseau and Mill, the pernicious relativism...essential paradox of Mill's liberalism--that...
- Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age.
- Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics Redpath, Peter A. r September 1, 2001 700+ words
...Dee Publisher, 2000. viii + 359 pp. Cloth, $28.50--Roger Kimball is managing editor of The New Criterion, an art critic for...Robert Musil"; 9. "James Fitzjames Stephen v. John Stuart Mill"; 10. "The Legacy of Friedrich Nietzsche"; 11. "The...
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...his wife Natalie Mill and their three children...of September. The Mills arrived to complete...also been safer," Mill said. "But Wenatchee...wanted to be." The Mills purchased the old...the building, the Mills said most of their...torn out. Natalie Mill said they have a small...
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