Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
A Politics, Nonfiction, Cultural book. It is not surprising that emotion untutored by thought results...
This new collection of essays bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. In these twenty-six pieces, Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the break-down of Islam to the legalization of drugs. The book includes "When Islam Breaks Down," named by David Brooks of the New York Times as the best journal article of 2004.Informed by years of medical practice in a wide variety of settings, Dr. Dalrymple's acquaintance with the outer limits of human experience allows him to discover the universal in the local and the particular, and makes him impatient with the humbug and obscurantism that have too long marred our social and political discourse.His essays are incisive yet undogmatic, beautifully composed and devoid of disfiguring jargon. Our Culture, What's Left of It is a book that restores our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization.
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The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called the two greatest gifts of Godthe soul and the speech which communicates it. People became hypocritical, cunning, mistrustful, cynical, silent, cruel, and indifferent to the fate of others as a result of the destruction of their own souls. Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses Shakespeare knows that the tension between men as they are and men as they ought to be will forever remain unresolved. Man's imperfectability is no more an excuse for total permissiveness, however, than are man's imperfections a reason for inflexible intolerance. Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses Original sinthat is to say, the sin of having been born with human nature that contains within it the temptation to evilwill always make a mockery of attempts at perfection based upon manipulation of the environment. Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
The British author, Theodore Dalrymple, is a crank (read: conservative commentator). I picked up this book of essays because he had some interesting pieces in the Wall Street Journal about the recent riots in London. Plus I'll admit, I was intrigued by the cover.Dalrymple is a retired prison psychiatrist, and this fact alone gives him... Namedropping Dalrymple has turned out to be one of the more efficient ways of de-friending for me. Its like asking people at a charity ball where they have rented their suit. Nobody likes a killjoy. Our affluent society ,social welfare and especially the multicultural dream are a mess and Dalrymple is the kind of guy who leaves no opportunity... set of essays on topics as diverse as Shakespeare's Macbeth and Islam in small town Britain. Always with a right leaning theme that we have glorified antisocial and dependent behavior.the world dalrymple sees is a group of individuals adversely affected by what he calls the 'liberal intelligentsia' (although he doesn't ever say exactly...
