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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 ReviewKimball, Roger is the author of 'Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse' with ISBN 9781566634793 and ISBN 1566634792.
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