Learned Ignorance in the Medicine Bow Mountains : a Reflection 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 intellectua...

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Main Author: Clifford, Craig.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2008.

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 199.
Rodopi Religion, Theology and Philosophy Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357938.

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Call Number: BJ1581.2 .C55 2008

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • ATTEMPTS: PHILOSOPHY AS ESSAY
  • A GOOD INTELLECTUAL IS HARD TO FIND
  • MIND-FORG'D MANACLES
  • RUNNING AND BEING
  • THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH, OR THAT AWFUL ENGLISH LANGUAGE
  • WINE OF WYOMING
  • WIT AND THE ART OF CONVERSATION
  • THE FISH
  • "A MINOR REGIONAL NOVELIST"
  • WANA
  • CULTURE VULTURES
  • CENTENNIAL
  • THE SWEET SCIENCE AND THE COMPETITIVE SPIRIT
  • THE HALFE-ARS'D ANGLER
  • BLOOD SPORTS AND HAUTE CUISINE
  • BREAD AND WINE
  • IDOLS OF THE ACADEMIC THEATER
  • WESTWARD I GO FREE
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • INDEX
  • VIBS.