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In Praise of Folly
The Blind-spots of Our Mind
10,79 € |
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Verlag: | Gibson Square |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 05.09.2019 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781783341429 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 224 |
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Beschreibungen
Travelling to the hard-living Dylan Thomas's Boathouse in Laugharne, Wales, psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple considered along the way another foible – the folly of eminent people. Praised for their attainments in one area, high-achievers are more often than not prone to unexpected failings elsewhere. Enter a large cast of anti- and vivisectionists, surgeons, theologians, philosophers, admirals, judges, astrophysicists, Nazi-leaning homoeopaths, and writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, P.G. Wodehouse, and Conan Doyle. In his pithy and amusing style, Dalrymple casts a sobering light on an insuppressible trait of ours – the fallibility of the human mind.