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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Mr. Kimball, one of the best of our cultural critics, offers a lively and penetrating study of genius--and pseudo-genius--at work, and investigates the use and abuse of intelligence. Drawing on figures as various as Plutarch and Hegel, Kierkegaard...

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