Learned Ignorance in the Medicine Bow Mountains a Reflection on Intellectual Prejudice.
This book is an apologia for the rooted intellectual against the disdainful condescension of the cosmopolitan intellectual—an apology in the Socratic sense of the word. It reflects the author’s Texas rootedness unapologetically and offers a polemical but thoughtful indictment of the intellectual pre...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2008.
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| Series: | Value Inquiry Book Series
199. Rodopi Religion, Theology and Philosophy Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357938. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- ATTEMPTS: PHILOSOPHY AS ESSAY
- A GOOD INTELLECTUAL IS HARD TO FIND
- MIND-FORG’D MANACLES
- RUNNING AND BEING
- THE QUEEN’S ENGLISH, OR THAT AWFUL ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- WINE OF WYOMING
- WIT AND THE ART OF CONVERSATION
- THE FISH
- “A MINOR REGIONAL NOVELIST”
- WANA
- CULTURE VULTURES
- CENTENNIAL
- THE SWEET SCIENCE AND THE COMPETITIVE SPIRIT
- THE HALFE-ARS’D ANGLER
- BLOOD SPORTS AND HAUTE CUISINE
- BREAD AND WINE
- IDOLS OF THE ACADEMIC THEATER
- WESTWARD I GO FREE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- INDEX
- VIBS.