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

ISBN-13:	9781566634793
Publisher:	Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
Publication date:	09/06/2002
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	1,011,126
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 8.64(h) x 1.29(d)

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 and P.G. Wodehouse, Elias Canetti and Anthony Trollope, he provides a sharply observed tour of Western intellectual and artistic aspiration. A master of the genre, as collections of his pieces attest, none more impressively than this set. —Booklist Starred Review