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Informed by years of medical practice in a wide variety of settings, Dr. Dalrymple's acquaintance with the outer limits of human experience allows him to discover the universal in the local and the particular, and makes him impatient with the humbug and obscurantism that have too long marred our social and political discourse.
His essays are incisive yet undogmatic, beautifully composed and devoid of disfiguring jargon. Our Culture, What's Left of It is a book that restores our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization.
356 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
“the frivolity of evil: the elevation of passing pleasure for oneself over the long-term misery of others to whom one owes a duty.”
“A rejection of everything associated with one’s childhood is not so much an escape from that childhood as an imprisonment by it.”
“To base one's rejection of what exists--and hence one's prescription for a better world--upon the petty frustrations of one's youth…. is profoundly egotistical.”