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Authors Note
Culture High and Dry
The Insoluble Problem: Supporting Art
Look it Up! Check it Out!
Where is History Now?
What Critics Are Good For
Reckoning With Time and Place
The Bugbear of Relativism
Exeunt the Humanities
A Surfeit of Fine Art
The Fallacy of the Single Cause
License to Corrupt
Toward the Twenty-First Century
Bibliographical Note
JACQUES BARZUN is a scholar, teacher, editor, and critic who lives in New York City. Among his best-known works are Darwin, Marx, Wagner, Berlioz and the Romantic Century, Teacher in America, The House of Intellect, and A Word or Two Before You Go
"[Mr. Barzun] is in favor of intuition, spontaneity. He is against mindless support for and glorification of artists [and] the thoughtless corruption of language."
~New York Times Book Review
""[Barzun's] well-crafted essays...exalt Pascal's esprit de finesse, or 'intuitive understanding.'""
~Washington Post Book World
""In 12 wise, stimulating essays and lectures, a noted Columbia University scholar...examines aspects of literary and art criticism, retrospective sociology, the abandonment of intelligibility [and] the effects of relativism on moral behavior.""
~Publishers Weekly
""[Mr. Barzun] is in favor of intuition, spontaneity. He is against mindless support for and glorification of artists [and] the thoughtless corruption of language.""
~New York Times Book Review
""It is very hard for a reviewer to do justice to a book so fertile in ideas, so challenging, so crowded with unexpected yet relevant details...The Culture We Deserve is a self-interview responding to all your queries, even the ones you were not clever enough to ask...And all this in a style that is conversational but not chatty, lucid but not dry, civilized but not highfalutin.""
~John Simon, The American Spectator
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