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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 - 1832)
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ZIN Product Number: 10118857
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 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 224 pages
Publisher: Warner Books, Incorporated
ISBN: 0446670340
Release Date: Jan 1, 1999
| |  | | | In Brief
This book is based on three lectures presented in 1992 at The New YorkPublic Library. The author of Barcelona (BRD 1992) and The Fatal Shore (BRD 1987) examines "the current state of American culture and politics; the arguments for and against multiculturalism in schools and colleges; and what he regards as the declining standards of American art and museums." (Libr J)
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The best-selling author of The Shock of the New, The Fatal Shore, and Barcelona here delivers a withering polemic aimed at the heart of recent American politics and culture. Culture of Complaint is a call for the reknitting of a fragmented and over-tribalized America - a deeply passionate book, filled with barbed wit and devastating takes on public life, both left and right of center. To the right, Hughes fires broadsides at the populist demagogy of Pat Buchanan, Pat Robertson, Jesse Helms and especially Ronald Reagan ("with somnambulistic efficiency, Reagan educated America down to his level. He left his country a little stupider in 1988 than it had been in 1980, and a lot more tolerant of lies"). To the left, he skewers political correctness ("political etiquette, not politics itself"), Afrocentrism, and academic obsessions with theory ("The world changes more deeply, widely, thrillingly than at any moment since 1917, perhaps since 1848, and the American academic left keeps fretting about how phallocentricity is inscribed in Dickens' portrayal of Little Nell"). PC censoriousness and "family-values" rhetoric, he argues, are only two sides of the same character, extrusions of America's puritan heritage into the present - and, at root, signs of America's difficulty in seeing past the end of the Us-versus-Them mentality implanted by four decades of the Cold War. In the long retreat from public responsibility beaten by America in the 80s, Hughes sees "a hollowness at the cultural core" - a nation "obsessed with therapies and filled with distrust of formal politics; skeptical of authority and prey to superstition; its language corroded by fake pity and euphemism." It resembles "late Rome...in the corruption and verbosity of its senators, in its reliance on sacred geese (those feathered ancestors of our own pollsters and spin-doctors) and in its submission to senile, deified emperors controlled by astrologers and extravagant wives." Culture of Complaint is fired by
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Acclaimed critic Robert Hughes, the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore and Barcelona, delivers a pointed, no-holds-barred critique aimed at the heart of American politics, culture, and art. A scathing vision of a nation "obsessed with therapies and filled with distrust . . . skeptical of authority and prey to superstition."
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| | | |  | | | | Introduction | | | Lecture 1 | Culture and the Broken Polity | 1 | | Lecture 2 | Multi-Culti and Its Discontents | 81 | | Lecture 3 | Moral in Itself: Art and the Therapeutic Fallacy | 153 | | Notes | 205 |
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