Lives of the Mind The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse

by Kimball, Roger

• ISBN13: 9781566634793
• ISBN10: 1566634792
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-06
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

Summary

This book provides a sharply observed tour of Western intellectual and artistic aspiration.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Raymond Aron and the Power of Ideas	p. 3
Plutarch and the Issue of Character	p. 18
"Strange Seriousness": Discovering Daumier	p. 37
Walter Bagehot: The Greatest Victorian	p. 52
What's Left of Descartes?	p. 81
Schiller's "Education"	p. 101
The Difficulty With Hegel	p. 119
Schopenhauer's Worlds	p. 140
What Did Kierkegaard Want?	p. 156
George Santayana	p. 178
Wittgenstein: The Philosophical Porcupine	p. 201
Bertrand Russell: Apostle of Disillusionment	p. 222
Who Was David Stove?	p. 246
Tocqueville Today	p. 275
Anthony Trollope: A Novelist Who Hunted the Fox	p. 293
G. C. Lichtenberg: A "Spy on Humanity"	p. 316
The Genius of Wodehouse	p. 330
The Mystery of Charles Peguy	p. 353
Index	p. 367
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