| Description |
1 online resource (211 pages) |
| Series |
Value Inquiry Book Series, 199 |
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Value Inquiry Book Series, 199
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| Contents |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND DISCLAIMERS; INTRODUCTION; One A GOOD INTELLECTUAL IS HARD TO FIND; Two MIND-FORG'D MANACLES; Three RUNNING AND BEING; Four THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH, OR THAT AWFUL ENGLISH LANGUAGE; Five WINE OF WYOMING; Six WIT AND THE ART OF CONVERSATION; Seven THE FISH; Eight "A MINOR REGIONAL NOVELIST"; Nine WANA; Ten CULTURE VULTURES; Eleven CENTENNIAL; Twelve THE SWEET SCIENCE ANDTHE COMPETITIVE SPIRIT; Thirteen THE HALFE-ARS'D ANGLER; Fourteen BLOOD SPORTS AND HAUTE CUISINE; Fifteen BREAD AND WINE; Sixteen IDOLS OF THE ACADEMIC THEATER |
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Seventeen WESTWARD I GO FREEBIBLIOGRAPHY; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INDEX |
| Summary |
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 prejudice against rootedness; but it is ultimately about the universal human struggle with origins |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-178) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Values.
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Conduct of life.
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ethics (philosophical concept)
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Conduct of life
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Values
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789401206594 |
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9401206597 |
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9042024984 |
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9789042024984 |
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1435695151 |
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9781435695153 |
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