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Title: The Future of the European Past by Hilton Kramer, Roger Kimball ISBN: 1-56663-178-5 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Myopic Worldview
Comment: I happen to think a great deal of good has been created by DWM (dead white males), and that they have much to say to us, despite the homogeneity of their ilk. But, these writers' prejudices about incidental matters (e.g., homosexuality) tend to throw the authors off subject into temperamental tangents of irritating, often infuriating, polemics. Indeed, this tendency among these so-called conservative illuminati make them seem borish, immature, and wildly inflammatory about all the wrong things. Rather than lead us to appreciate the "best" in human history, after the excellence of Matthew Arnold, they tend to approach the matter by eloquent straw man sophistry. It makes them appear collectively as myopic narcisists, whose only worldview is what they hate. I hate "jello," but what relevance does jello have with the excellence of a Berlioz composition? About as much as homosexuality has to the excellence of John Maynard Keynes' economics. Shooting the tree and getting lost in the forest is not a good sign for any critic; yet, nearly all are "victims" of this polemic. For individuals who despise victimhood, they fail to see their essays are filled with it; what they write often begets the very thing they profess to deplore. As articulate as these essays are, they are not very well-written. If looking to the past opens doors to the future, then reading Allen Tate, Isaiah Berlin, and Aldous Huxley are much better road maps to great ideas and fine literature, and much better critics than most of these amateurs.
Rating: 5
Summary: "irritating"
Comment: Now I have to read this work. Could it possibly be more "irritating" than the January fifth review?! We shall see. All in all, it sounds like the perfect antitode to today's unconscious and helpless relativism.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant and utterly compulsive reading
Comment: This is a brilliant and compulsive book, though in its dissection of our cultural malaise far more terrifying than any escapade by Hannibal Lecter. Read it if you care about the future of civilization.
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Title: The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age by Hilton Kramer, Roger Kimball ISBN: 1566634660 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: What's Happened to the Humanities? by Alvin B. Kernan, Harold Shapiro, William Bowen ISBN: 0691011559 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 17 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Face of the Tiger by Mark Steyn ISBN: 0973157003 Publisher: Stockade Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Experiments Against Reality by Roger Kimball ISBN: 1566633354 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.50 |
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Title: Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse by Roger Kimball ISBN: 1566634792 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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