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The Fate of Ideas - Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals (Paperback)
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The Fate of Ideas - Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals (Paperback)
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As editor of the quarterly Salmagundi for the past fifty years,
Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in
politics, culture, and the arts. Reflecting on his collaborations
and quarrels with some of the twentieth century's most
transformative writers, artists, and thinkers, Boyers writes a
wholly original intellectual memoir that rigorously confronts
selected aspects of contemporary society. Organizing his chapters
around specific ideas, Boyers anatomizes the process by which they
fall in and out of fashion and often confuse those who most
ardently embrace them. In provocative encounters with authority,
fidelity, "the other," pleasure, and a wide range of other topics,
Boyers tells colorful stories about his own life and, in the
process, studies the fate of ideas in a society committed to change
and ill equipped to assess the losses entailed in modernity. Among
the writers who appear in these pages are Susan Sontag and V. S.
Naipaul, Jamaica Kincaid and J. M. Coetzee, as well as figures
drawn from all walks of life, including unfaithful husbands,
psychoanalysts, terrorists, and besotted beauty lovers.
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