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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
Twelve essays exploring aspects of literacy and art criticism, retrospective sociology and the effects of relativism on moral behavior.
“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
“[Barzun’s] well-crafted essays … exalt Pascal’s esprit de finesse, or ‘intuitive understanding.’”—Washington Post Book World
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JACQUES BARZUN is a scholar, teacher, editor, and critic who lives in New York City. Among his best-known works are Darwin, Marx, Wagner, Berlioz and the Romantic Century, Teacher in America, The House of Intellect, and A Word or Two Before You Go
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