Enemies of hope : a critique of contemporary pessimism / Raymond Tallis.
Enemies of hope : a critique of contemporary pessimism / Raymond Tallis.
Enemies of hope : a critique of contemporary pessimism / Raymond Tallis.
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New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Date
1997.
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N149.5/3
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English
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xv, 499 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Prologue: Isaiah Berlin's 'Yes-But to the Enlightenment' -- Pt. I. Pathologising Culture -- Introduction: Man as a Sick Animal. 1. From Apes to Plato. 2. Falling into the Ha-Ha. 3. The Wisdom of Myths and the Myths of Wisdom. 4. A Critique of Cultural Criticism -- Pt. II. Marginalising Consciousness...
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New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
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New York (State)
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1997.
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Enemies of Hope identifies the themes common to anti-humanist twentieth-century thought and challenges the cult of pessimism that pervades our age. Tallis teases out the many strands of the comfortable, self-congratulatory cynicism of modernist and postmodernist cultural critics, exposing their self-contradictions and their willful blindness to the...
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Enemies of hope : a critique of contemporary pessimism / Raymond Tallis.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-490) and index.
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N149.5/3
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0312224176 (U.S. : pbk.)
9780312173265 (cloth)
0312173261 (cloth)
9780333763186(pbk.) :
0333763181(pbk.) :
9780312224172(U.S. : pbk.) :
0312224176(U.S. : pbk.) :
9780333763186(pbk.)
0333763181(pbk.)
9780312224172 (U.S. : pbk.)
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991005565569702626
