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The Survival of Culture - Permanent Values in a Virtual Age (Paperback)
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The Survival of Culture - Permanent Values in a Virtual Age (Paperback)
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Can the cultural values that have distinguished Western
civilization survive the present-day preoccupation with relativism
and the quest for pleasure? In this important and wide-ranging
collection of essays, ten distinguished critics reflect on the
direction of our society, emphasizing both the dangers that
threaten our institutions and the vivifying survivals that are
worthy of being cherished and nurtured. Among the contributors,
Robert H. Bork considers the contemporary assaults on the tradition
of law; Anthony Daniels, the English doctor and essayist, finds
that he must defend the venerable principle that physicians
traditionally subscribe to: "First do no harm"; Roger Kimball
assesses the prospects of high culture; Hilton Kramer writes on the
future of criticism; Kenneth Minogue shows how Western society has
increasingly fallen prey to a "new Epicureanism"; Eric Ormsby warns
of the fate of research libraries in the age of the Internet; David
Pryce-Jones takes a hard look at the way the bureaucratic
imperatives of the European Union are undermining freedom and
democracy; Diana Schaub investigates the values of Generation X;
Mark Steyn defends Western values against the anti-Western,
anti-democratic forces that operate within the West itself; and
Keith Windschuttle shows how efforts to alter the historical record
threaten the very survival of culture. In all, The Survival of
Culture provides a critical fever chart of our age, plotting the
health of our cultural institutions and mounting a powerful attack
on their adversaries. Drawn from the pages of The New Criterion,
these vividly written essays are guaranteed to spark controversy
and debate.
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