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Book Description: Ivan R Dee, Inc, United States, 2002. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 212 x 143 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Confronting the dilemmas of modernist and postmodernist thought, Roger Kimball in this new collection of his work explores the literary and philosophical underpinnings of modernity as well as the state of our culture today. Experiments Against Reality displays the sophistication, breadth of knowledge, and clarity of argument that have made Mr. Kimball one of the most trenchant critics of our contemporary culture. He begins by considering the influential poet and theorist T. E. Hulme, and shows how the work of Eliot, Auden, Wallace Stevens, Robert Musil, Elias Canetti, and others can be seen as efforts to articulate a convincing alternative to the intellectual and spiritual desolations of the age. Turning to the philosophical tradition, Mr. Kimball suggests how figures from Mill and Nietzsche to Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein, Sartre, Heidegger, Foucault, and Roger Scruton have addressed _ or in many cases evaded _ the defining moral imperatives of modernity.Finally he steps back to consider more generally the career of contemporary culture _ the trivializing nature of the contemporary art world; the academic attack on historical truth and scientific rationality; the fate of the 'two cultures' controversy. 'Enlightenment,' Mr. Kimball writes, 'sought to emancipate man by liberating reason and battling against superstition. But reason liberated entirely from tradition has turned out to be rancorous and hubristic _ in short, something irrational.' Experiments Against Reality offers continuing evidence of Mr. Kimball's stature as one of our most important cultural critics. Bookseller Inventory # ANB9781566634304

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Book Description: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher February 2002, 2002. Paper Back. Book Condition: New. Is truth merely a social construct? Is it something we invent or something we discover? In this collection of essays, Roger Kimball exposes the attempts of today's cultural relativists to disestablish the intellectual tradition of the West, a position which leads them to believe that everything is possible and nothing true. These ''experiments against reality'' include the attempts of postmodernists and deconstructionists to convince us that there is no truth outside the human mind and no moral laws binding on human nature. Despite the maze of competing barbarisms in contemporary society that deny the concept of objective truth, there are nonetheless recurrent themes, arguments, and attitudes they share. These postmodernist attempts to emancipate human reason from its reliance on tradition (labeled superstition), turn the Kantian motto ''Dare to know'' on its head, arguing instead ''Dare to believe that there is nothing to know.'' In essays chronicling the dilemmas of modernist and postmodernist thought, Kimball examines the influence of Pater, Auden, and Eliot, Mill, Nietzsche, and Sartre, Foucault, Fukuyama, and Pieper. His concluding essay ''Joseph Pieper: Leisure and its Discontents'' argues for a return to the true meaning of leisure as the basis of culture, of confronting and reaffirming our humanity. Bookseller Inventory # 20080904147164

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Book Description: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Paperback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age, Roger Kimball, Confronting the dilemmas of modernist and postmodernist thought, Roger Kimball in this new collection of his work explores the literary and philosophical underpinnings of modernity as well as the state of our culture today. Experiments Against Reality displays the sophistication, breadth of knowledge, and clarity of argument that have made Mr. Kimball one of the most trenchant critics of our contemporary culture. He begins by considering the influential poet and theorist T. E. Hulme, and shows how the work of Eliot, Auden, Wallace Stevens, Robert Musil, Elias Canetti, and others can be seen as efforts to articulate a convincing alternative to the intellectual and spiritual desolations of the age. Turning to the philosophical tradition, Mr. Kimball suggests how figures from Mill and Nietzsche to Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein, Sartre, Heidegger, Foucault, and Roger Scruton have addressed _ or in many cases evaded _ the defining moral imperatives of modernity. Finally he steps back to consider more generally the career of contemporary culture _ the trivializing nature of the contemporary art world; the academic attack on historical truth and scientific rationality; the fate of the 'two cultures' controversy. 'Enlightenment,' Mr. Kimball writes, 'sought to emancipate man by liberating reason and battling against superstition. But reason liberated entirely from tradition has turned out to be rancorous and hubristic _ in short, something irrational.' Experiments Against Reality offers continuing evidence of Mr. Kimball's stature as one of our most important cultural critics. Bookseller Inventory # B9781566634304

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Book Description: Ivan R Dee, 2002. Paperback. Book Condition: Brand New. 368 pages. 8.50x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # x-156663430X

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Book Description: Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2002. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 8.42 by 6 inches. (00368 pages) [ships from USA takes 8-14 days to Europe] Lang=English accessory:NO ACCESSORY (Paperback ). Bookseller Inventory # AF156663430X

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Book Description: Paperback. Book Condition: New. 148mm x 25mm x 214mm. 368 pages. 0.381. Bookseller Inventory # 9781566634304

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Book Description: Paperback. Book Condition: New. 148mm x 25mm x 214mm. 368 pages. 0.381. Bookseller Inventory # 9781566634304

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