the mandarins and the masses Dalrymple, Theodore. creator text biography ilu Chicago Ivan R. Dee 2005 monographic eng

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xi, 341 p. ; 23 cm. Arts and letters. The frivolity of evil ; A taste for danger ; Why Shakespeare is for all time ; Sex and the Shakespeare reader ; What's wrong with twinkling buttocks? ; The rage of Virginia Woolf ; How--and how not--to love mankind ; A neglected genius ; The dystopian imagination ; A lost art ; Gillray's ungloomy morality ; Trash, violence, and Versace: but is it art? -- Society and politics. What we have to lose ; How to read a society ; Why Havana had to die ; The uses of corruption ; The goddess of domestic tribulations ; The starving criminal ; Don't legalize drugs ; All sex, all the time ; Who killed childhood? ; A horror story ; The man who predicted the race riots ; When Islam breaks down ; The barbarians at the gates of Paris ; After empire. Theodore Dalrymple. "Most of the contents of this book first appeared in City journal, published by The Manhattan Institute"--T.p. verso. Includes index. e-uk--- Culture Philosophy Social problems Civilization, Modern Dalrymple, Theodore Physicians Great Britain Prison physicians Great Britain Great Britain Civilization 1945- Cultuurkritiek Intellectuelen Populaire cultuur Waarden Essays (teksten) HM621 .D151o 2005 R489.D357 A3 2005 610/.92 B 71.50 1566636434 (alk. paper) 9781566636438 (alk. paper) 2004027150 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004027150.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004027150.html DLC 041115 20230410123707.0 57159