description: 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.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
language: English
title: Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse
titlecomplete: Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse
genres: Biography, Philosophy, Essays, Cultural, Literature
ratings_count: 52
publisher: Ivan R. Dee