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Twelve essays exploring aspects of literacy and art criticism, retrospective sociology and the effects of relativism on moral behavior.
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"[Barzun's] well-crafted essays ... exalt Pascal's esprit de finesse, or 'intuitive understanding.'"--Washington Post Book World
"[Barzun's] well-crafted essays exalt Pascal's esprit de finesse, or 'intuitive understanding.'" Washington Post Book World
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[Mr. Barzun] is in favor of intuition, spontaneity. He is against mindless support for and glorification of artists [and] the thoughtless corruption of language. New York Times Book Review"
[Barzun s] well-crafted essays exalt Pascal s esprit de finesse, or intuitive understanding. Washington Post Book World"
It is very hard for a reviewer to do justice to a book so fertile in ideas, so challenging, so crowded with unexpected yet relevant details...The Culture We Deserve is a self-interview responding to all your queries, even the ones you were not clever enough to ask...And all this in a style that is conversational but not chatty, lucid but not dry, civilized but not highfalutin. John Simon, The American Spectator"
In 12 wise, stimulating essays and lectures, a noted Columbia University scholar...examines aspects of literary and art criticism, retrospective sociology, the abandonment of intelligibility [and] the effects of relativism on moral behavior. Publishers Weekly"
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The essence of culture is interpenetration. From any part of it the searching eye will discover connections with another part seemingly remote. If from my descriptions the reader finds this wide-angled view sharpened or expanded, my purpose in publishing these pages will have been served.
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