Counterpoints 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts

by Kimball, Roger; Kramer, Hilton

• ISBN13: 9781566638050
• ISBN10: 1566638054
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

Summary

Since its founding in 1982, The New Criterion has waged a brisk and articulate campaign against facile and often politically motivated assaults on art and greatness. It has brought unparalleled verve, clarity, and wit to the vocation of criticism. But The New Criterion is not only America's foremost voice of critical dissent in culture and the arts; it is also an energetic ally in the battle against cultural and intellectual amnesia. At a moment when many institutions have become willing collaborators in despoiling our intellectual and artistic legacy, The New Criterion has been a standard-bearer for literary and cultural excellence.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Determinations
The Fortunes of Permanence	p. 3
It's the Demography, Stupid	p. 22
Enoch Powell: Should He Have Spoken?	p. 36
"Christophobia" and the West	p. 43
The Phobia of Phobias	p. 57
Ataturk's Creation	p. 61
From Moses to Musa	p. 69
The Legacy of Russell Kirk	p. 81
Remembering the Gulag	p. 91
Contentions
The Hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky	p. 99
Eric Hobsbawm: Lying to the Credulous	p. 114
Thomas Kuhn's Irrationalism	p. 121
Looking Backward at Edward Bellamy's Utopia	p. 130
Adversary Jurisprudence	p. 140
Frantz Fanon: The Platonic Form of Human Resentment	p. 162
"The Innocents Abroad," or the New Pilgrim's Progress	p. 171
Revisionist Lust	p. 184
Pictures from an Institution	p. 205
Recuperations
"Realism Coloured by Poetry": Rereading John Buchan	p. 213
Who Was Simon Raven?	p. 230
The Seriousness of Yvor Winters	p. 241
The Last Critic? The Importance of F. R. Leavis	p. 253
The Intimate Abstraction of Paul Valery	p. 269
Milton Avery: Then and Now	p. 281
Philhellene's Progress: Patrick Leigh Fermor	p. 288
Lord Acton: In Pursuit of First Principles	p. 303
Surtees and Money	p. 314
The Legacy of Donald Francis Tovey	p. 325
Missing Mister Abbott	p. 336
The Other Other Frost	p. 344
What Happened to Aldous Huxley?	p. 367
Discriminations
Does Abstract Art Have a Future?	p. 383
The Epidemiology of Evil	p. 389
The Hunter Gracchus	p. 396
Partying on Parnassus: The New York School Poets	p. 410
A Satyr Against Mankind	p. 422
McKim, Mead & White's Architectural Citizenship	p. 430
Balanchine's Castle	p. 440
Travels in "The Waste Land"	p. 450
The Drop Too Much: Emerson's Eccentric Circle	p. 457
Are Emotions Moral?	p. 469
Max Beckmann at the Guggenheim	p. 476
Contributors	p. 485
Index	p. 488
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