Learned ignorance in the Medicine Bow Mountains : a reflexion on intellectual prejudice /

This book is an apologia for the rooted intellectual against the disdainful condescension of the cosmopolitan intellectualān apology in the Socratic sense of the word. It reflects the authorÅs Texas rootedness unapologetically and offers a polemical but thoughtful indictment of the intellectual prej...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clifford, Craig Edward, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, Ã2008.
Colección:Value inquiry book series ; v. 199.
Value inquiry book series. Lived values, valued lives.
Temas:
1900-1999
Values.
Conduct of life.
Morale pratique.
ethics (philosophical concept)
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Conduct of life
Intellectual life
Values
Medicine Bow Mountains (Colo. and Wyo.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Medicine Bow, Monts (Col. et Wyom.) > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siÆecle.
United States > Medicine Bow Mountains
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Attempts : philosophy as essay
  • A good intellectual is hard to find
  • Mind forg'd manacles
  • Running and being
  • The Queen's English, or that awful English language
  • Wine of Wyoming
  • Wit and the art of conversation
  • The fish
  • "A minor regional novelist"
  • Wana
  • Culture vultures
  • Centennial
  • The sweet science and the competitive spirit
  • The halfe ars'd angler
  • Blood sports and haute cuisine
  • Bread and wine
  • Idols of the academic theater
  • Westward I go free.

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