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Our Culture, What's Left of It Theodore Dalrymple


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Our Culture, What's Left of It


The Mandarins and the Masses




This new collection of essays bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. In these twenty-six pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the break-down of Islam to the legalization of drugs. The book includes "When Islam Breaks Down," named by David Brooks of the New York Times as the best journal article of 2004.

Informed by years of medical practice in a wide variety of settings, Dr. Dalrymple's acquaintance with the outer limits of human experience allows him to discover the universal in the local and the particular, and makes him impatient with the humbug and obscurantism that have too long marred our social and political discourse.

His essays are incisive yet undogmatic, beautifully composed and devoid of disfiguring jargon. Our Culture, What's Left of It is a book that restores our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization.

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Os vários ensaios cobrem muitos assuntos, alguns mais interessantes que outros. Não concordo com tudo o que ele escreve (sempre gostei de Virginia Woolf), mas poucas vezes encontrei reflexões tão bem estruturadas e originais. Fico imaginando o que ele escreveria sobre o Brasil.... leia mais

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