Lives of the mind
Subtitle: the use and abuse of intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse
By: Roger Kimball
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9781566634793
Subjects: Genialiteit; Misbruik; Intelligentie; Philosophes; Intelligenz; Geschichte; Philosophie; Modern Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Raymond Aron and the power of ideas --; title: Plutarch and the issue of character --; title: "Strange seriousness" : discovering Daumier --; title: Walter Bagehot : the greatest Victorian --; title: What's left of Descartes --; title: Schiller's "education" --; title: The difficulty with Hegel --; title: Schopenhauer's worlds --; title: What did Kierkegaard want --; title: George Santayana --; title: Wittgenstein : the philosophical porcupine --; title: Bertrand Russell : apostle of disillusionment --; title: Who was David Stove --; title: Tocqueville today --; title: Anthony Trollope : a novelist who hunted the fox --; title: G.C. Lichtenberg : a"spy on humanity" --; title: The genius of Wodehouse --; title: The mystery of Charles Péguy.