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050 00 $aJA75.7$b.G73 2000
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100 1 $aGrant, Robert,$d1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00067610
245 14 $aThe politics of sex and other essays :$bon conservatism, culture, and imagination /$cRobert Grant ; foreword by Raymond Tallis.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c2000.
300 $axvii, 248 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tForeword /$rRaymond Tallis --$gPt. 1.$tPractice versus Theory.$g1.$tConservatism: an Outline.$g2.$tEdmund Burke.$g3.$tMichael Oakeshott.$g4.$tThe Unknown Oakeshott.$g5.$tWriters and Ideology: Three Case Studies.$g1.$tVaclav Havel.$g2.$tRaymond Williams.$g3.$tSalman Rushdie and the Politics of Credulity.$g6.$tThe Disenchanted Flute: Opera and the Rule of the Concept --$gPt. 2.$tCulture and Society.$g7.$tOn Culture.$g8.$tThe Politics of Sex.$g9.$tThe Politics of Death.$g10.$tCulture, Technology and Value.$g11.$tOrganic Society: A Note.$g12.$tFour Cheers for Normality.$g1.$tArnold's Cultural Politics.$g2.$tThe Politics of Soap.$g3.$tIn Defence of Viz.$g4.$tA Voice from the Fringe: Jim Rose.$g13.$tHome Truths: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the House Beautiful --$gPt. 3.$tThe Truth of Fiction.$g14.$tReligion, Art and the Limits of the Sayable.$g15.$tStatecraft and Metapolitics in Shakespeare.$g16.$tJane Austen: Ethics and Social Order.$g17.$tTrollope, Tact and Virtue.
505 80 $g18.$tTolstoy and Enlightenment: an Exchange with Isaiah Berlin.$g19.$tAerodromes and Aspidistras: the Worlds of Thirties Fiction.$g20.$tThe Survivor's Guilt: Wiesel and Sciascia on Terror and the Holocaust.
520 1 $a"Aimed at the regular, enquiring reader rather than the academic specialist, Grant's volume brings together some of the most memorable pieces from his prolific output published since 1982.".
520 8 $a"Conservative, but sceptical and non-partisan, these essays concern the inability of abstract theories to comprehend, let alone prescribe for, the things which most matter to us, namely morals, politics, art, and culture at all levels from the high to the popular. They deal with the threat to our cultural traditions offered by socialist hubris and liberal indifference, and (more optimistically) with culture's own spontaneous power of resistance, renewal and self-repair."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPolitics and culture.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104468
650 0 $aConservatism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85031272
852 00 $bleh$hJA75.7$i.G73 2000