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The culture we deserve
- Title
- The culture we deserve / Jacques Barzun ; Arthur Krystal, editor.
- Author
- Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012
- Publication
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press
- ©1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | AZ221 .B29 1989 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Krystal, Arthur.
- Description
- vii, 185 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- In 12 wise, stimulating essays and lectures, a noted Columbia University scholar examines aspects of literary and art criticism, retrospective sociology, the abandonment of intelligibility and the effects of relativism on moral behavior.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Culture high and dry -- The insoluble problem: supporting art -- Look it up! Check it out! -- Where is history now? -- What critics are good for -- Reckoning with time and place -- The bugbear of relativism -- Exeunt the humanities -- A surfeit of fine art -- The fallacy of the single cause -- License to corrupt -- Toward the twenty-first century.
- ISBN
- 0819552003
- 9780819552006
- 0819562378
- 9780819562371
- LCCN
- 88033927
- OCLC
- ocm18981362
- 18981362
- SCSB-1726577
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library