The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia Capa dura - 2012 - 1st Edição

In essays ranging over time, place, and subject, Roger Kimball has produced gems of literary and social commentaries, which constitute an incisive critique of the relativism that afflicts our culture. His book is in the worthy tradition recalled in the subtitle, Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy. - Gertrude Himmelfarb Roger Kimball is without doubt one of the best cultural observers of our day. The scope of his knowledge and the depth of his insight are alike breathtaking. To read him is to step away from the noise of post-modern bedlam into a place of enduring sense and wisdom. - Andrew Klavan, author of Empires of Lies Posing as merely a collection of witty and penetrating essays, this book in fact contains the secret to nothing less than the regeneration of America, indeed of the English-speaking culture as a whole. With this work, Roger Kimball can no longer simply be thought of as an insightful and compelling commentator of the social, political and cultural scene, but must now be regarded as an important modern prophet, a philosopher for the future. - Andrew Roberts Roger Kimball is eloquence personified, and he has written a timely, elegant, and bold defense of the immutable first principles and standards of excellence that animate and define the West. - Tim Goeglein, Vice President for External Relations, Focus on the Family Roger Kimball's essays . . . are as wise as they are elegantly written. - Martin Gardner Roger Kimball is a trenchant and courageous critic of contemporary culture, although his positive values and his historical grasp make him far more than a mere polemicist. - John Gross Roger Kimball's mind is uniquely qualified to deal with literary and philosophical matters alike, able to see things from both a critical and a scholarly point of view. His position is conservative but not reactionary, humanistic but not populist, fresh but never trendy." - John Simon