How to Sound Cultured: Master The 250 Names That Intellectuals Love To Drop Into Conversation

Bergh, Hubert Van Den and Hodgkinson, Thomas W.

ISBN 10: 1848319304 / ISBN 13: 9781848319301

Published by Icon Books Ltd, 2015

About this Item

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Sound Cultured: Master The 250 Names That Intellectuals Love To Drop Into Conversation
• Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848319304
• ISBN 13: 9781848319301
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used; Very Good

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Synopsis

'Damn, all my cheating secrets revealed. In book form' Stephen Fry



Which philosopher had the maddest hairstyle? Which novelist drank 50 cups of black coffee every day? What on earth did Simone de Beauvoir see in Jean-Paul Sartre?



How to Sound Cultured offers a wry and yet profoundly useful look inside the mirrored palaces of high culture. Covering such inscrutable characters as Heidegger, Montaigne, Kahlo and Lévi-Strauss (apparently not just a designer of jeans), inscrutable polymaths Thomas W. Hodgkinson and Hubert van den Bergh - the author of the acclaimed How to Sound Clever - have done the hard work of sorting the cultural wheat from the chaff.



Read this book and you'll never again mistake Rimbaud for Rambo or Georg Lukacs for George Lucas, you'll know precisely when to drop Foucault's name into a conversation and how to pronounce 'Borgesian', and you'll learn many more essential pointers for the intellectual life.

About the Author

Hubert van den Bergh is the author of How to Sound Clever (Bloomsbury, 2010). He has written for The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian and appeared on Vanessa Feltz's BBC Radio 2 show.

Thomas W. Hodgkinson is the author of the novel Memoirs of a Stalker (Silvertail, 2015). He writes regularly for The Spectator and the Daily Mail, and is a contributing editor at The Week.