Thank you thank you thank you for taking the time to review this book. I came across it through the audiobook “the age of unreason“ which credits Hofstadter immediately in the introduction.
Loved this review. Book does seem topical. I sometimes I wish I'd lived in the 60s. Not because of the Hippie stuff or the Beatles, but because you saw intellectuals take part in public life. They went on TV and talked about things. Authors were looked to as public figures for good or bad.
Thank you! I totally get it. Gone are the days of people like Lionel Trilling, Susan Sontag, Simone De Beauvior, H L Mencken... not a specific decade, but the public intellectual is not really a thing anymore. I think people value a great essay collection these days, but that's a different thing.
When looking back, and seeing video clips of “street kids“ from the 60s, I’m really stunned at how much more eloquent and thoughtful they are than our society today.
I must read this book. Well, wade through it... Yesterday Sharon Goforth discussed this book on her Nonfiction November Update. Thank you for your review.
Thanks for supporting my channel! I found this to be one of the most interesting topics within the book. Let me know what you think if you wind up reading this one
One of the most important books you can read of the previous century
Sounds like a really fascinating book. How general education, intellectualism, and democracy are connected is such an important topic.
Absolutely! I think the attention this book receives has waned over the years, even though it remains relevant and thought provoking.
Thank you thank you thank you for taking the time to review this book.
I came across it through the audiobook “the age of unreason“ which credits Hofstadter immediately in the introduction.
Loved this review. Book does seem topical. I sometimes I wish I'd lived in the 60s. Not because of the Hippie stuff or the Beatles, but because you saw intellectuals take part in public life. They went on TV and talked about things. Authors were looked to as public figures for good or bad.
Thank you! I totally get it. Gone are the days of people like Lionel Trilling, Susan Sontag, Simone De Beauvior, H L Mencken... not a specific decade, but the public intellectual is not really a thing anymore. I think people value a great essay collection these days, but that's a different thing.
When looking back, and seeing video clips of “street kids“ from the 60s, I’m really stunned at how much more eloquent and thoughtful they are than our society today.
Thank you for the review. Adding this one to my TBR.
I must read this book. Well, wade through it... Yesterday Sharon Goforth discussed this book on her Nonfiction November Update. Thank you for your review.
Thank you for supporting the channel! I just checked her out, she's quite the reader!
Thank you for the excellent review. The discussion surrounding the social consequences of compulsory education sounds especially interesting to me.
Thanks for supporting my channel! I found this to be one of the most interesting topics within the book. Let me know what you think if you wind up reading this one
Right on about the dry as a desert at times haha
Great book. Jean Jacques Rousseau is one of anti intelectual and anti reason thinkers in western history. We must to defeat anti reason movement,
Nice Bill Hicks reference! I think I'll check this book out
Thank you! : )
Excellent review
Thanks!
Sounds fascinating. It’s also a bit relative, isn’t it? An Eisenhower would be so very welcome right now.
Absolutely!