Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse by Roger Kimball

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

Roger Kimball

384 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography essays philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In the faculty of writing nonsense," the English critic Walter Bagehot once observed, "stupidity is no match for genius." In Lives of the Mind, Roger Kimball, one of the best of our cultural critics, offers a lively and penetrating study of genius...

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