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Experiments against Reality - The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age (Hardcover)
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Experiments against Reality - The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age (Hardcover)
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"Experiments Against Reality" displays the sophistication, breadth
of knowledge, and clarity of argument that have made Mr Kimball one
of the most trenchant critics of our contemporary culture. He
begins by considering the influential poet and theorist T E Hulme,
and shows how the work of Eliot, Auden, Wallace Stevens, Robert
Musil, Elias Canetti, and others can be seen as efforts to
articulate a convincing alternative to the intellectual and
spiritual desolations of the age. Turning to the philosophical
tradition, Mr Kimball suggests how figures from Mill and Nietzsche
to Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein, Sartre, Heidegger, Foucault, and
Roger Scruton have addressed or in many cases evaded the defining
moral imperatives of modernity. Finally he steps back to consider
more generally the career of contemporary culturethe trivializing
nature of the contemporary art world; the academic attack on
historical truth and scientific rationality; the fate of the two
cultures controversy. "Experiments Against Reality" offers
continuing evidence of Mr Kimballs stature as one of our most
important cultural critics. "Named an International Book of the
Year by Mary Lefkowitz" - Times Literary Supplement." A scathing
critic but one whose tirades are usually justified...His
intellectual rigor is refreshing. "Experiments Against Reality"
demonstrates what criticism can be if you take away all the
theoretical scaffolding inherent in, say, a deconstructionist,
structuralist or feminist reading." - Catherine Saint Louis, "New
York Times Book Review".
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