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Mr. Kimball, one of the best of our cultural critics, offers a lively and penetrating study of genius and pseudo-genius at work, and investigates the ...Show synopsisMr. Kimball, one of the best of our cultural critics, offers a lively and penetrating study of genius and pseudo-genius at work, and investigates the use and abuse of intelligence. Drawing on figures as various as Plutarch and Hegel, Kierkegaard and P.G. Wodehouse, Elias Canetti and Anthony Trollope, he provides a sharply observed tour of Western intellectual and artistic aspiration. "A master of the genre, as collections of his pieces attest, none more impressively than this set." Booklist Starred Review.Hide synopsis
Description:New. Mr. Kimball, one of the best of our cultural critics,...New. Mr. Kimball, one of the best of our cultural critics, offers a lively and penetrating study of genius and pseudo-genius at work, and investigates the use and abuse of intelligence. Drawing on figures as various as Plutarch and Hegel, Kierkegaard and P.
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Description:New. Addressing intellectual hubris, critic Roger Kimball...New. Addressing intellectual hubris, critic Roger Kimball counters with a definition of intellectual humility: ''Till we can Become divine we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for a change we sink to something lower'' (Anthony Trollope in Barchester Towers). Kimball's approach in Lives of the Mind best parallels figure drawing in art class. Sketching an array of philosophers, theologians, historians, novelists and almost mystics (Charles Peguy comes to mind here), Kimball ponders his chosen figures ''in terms of their fidelity to the truth and their quotient of what one might call spiritual prudence: their healthy contact with reality. '' He likens intelligence to fire--a power neither good nor bad except in its application--and plays the intellectual pathologist convincingly. A student and connoisseur of linguistic drama, Kimball astutely recognizes the bewitching quality of ideologies and seeks to point out ''the mistakes as well as the fine strokes'' of the figures he draws. Peppering his essays with plenty of biographical anecdote, Kimball summons forth Plutarch and Hegel, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Santayana, Wodehouse, Tocqueville and Trollope (among others) in an effort to reintroduce uneasiness as a necessary corrective to the spiritual aridity and blanket certainty of modern rationalism. Not to mention ''a part of the human mystery that we neglect at the cost of our diminishment. '' 359 pp.
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