Learned ignorance in the Medicine Bow Mountains :: a reflexion 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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Main Author: Clifford, Craig Edward, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2008.
Series:Value inquiry book series ; v. 199.
Value inquiry book series. Lived values, valued lives.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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. ContentsList of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgments and DisclaimersIntroduction: Attempts: Philosophy as EssayOne: A Good Intellectual Is Hard to FindTwo: Mind Forg'd ManaclesThree: Running and BeingFour: The Queen's English, or That Awful English LanguageFive: Wine of WyomingSix: Wit and the Art of ConversationSeven: The FishEight: ¿A Minor Regional Novelist¿Nine: WanaTen: Culture VulturesEleven: CentennialTwelve: The Sweet Science and the Competitive SpiritThirteen: The Halfe Ars'd AnglerFourteen: Blood Sports and Haute CuisineFifteen: Bread and WineSixteen: Idols of the Academic TheaterSeventeen: Westward I Go FreeBibliograpyAbout the AuthorIndex.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 187 pages) : illustrations, portrait
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-178) and index.
ISBN:9781435695153
1435695151
9042024984
9789042024984
ISSN:0929-8436 ;

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