Self and Soul A Defense of Ideals【電子書籍】[ Mark Edmundson ]

＜p＞An ＜em＞ARTery＜/em＞ Best Book of the Year＜br /＞ An ＜em＞Art of Manliness＜/em＞ Best Book of the Year＜/p＞ ＜p＞In a culture that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, the desires of the individual self stand supreme, Mark Edmundson says. We spare little thought for the great ideals that once gave life meaning and worth. ＜em＞Self and Soul＜/em＞ is an impassioned effort to defend the values of the Soul.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“An impassioned critique of Western society, a relentless assault on contemporary complacency, shallowness, competitiveness and self-regard…Throughout ＜em＞Self and Soul＜/em＞, Edmundson writes with a Thoreau-like incisiveness and fervor…[A] powerful, heartfelt book.”＜br /＞ ーMichael Dirda, ＜em＞Washington Post＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“[Edmundson’s] bold and ambitious new book is partly a demonstration of what a ‘real education’ in the humanities, inspired by the goal of ‘human transformation’ and devoted to taking writers seriously, might look like…[It] quietly sets out to challe．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る