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The Culture We Deserve: A Critique of Disenlightenment

Product Description: Twelve essays exploring aspects of literacy and art criticism, retrospective sociology and the effects of relativism on moral behavior.

By Jacques Barzun

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9780819552006 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, June 1, 1989, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Twelve essays exploring aspects of literacy and art criticism, retrospective sociology and the effects of relativism on moral behavior.

A Word or Two Before You Go

The renowned scholar and author of 'Teacher in America' and 'The House of Intellect,' examines how the urge to be snobbish, prestigious, technical, scientific, and abstract has led the English language astray

By Jacques Barzun

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9780819551740 | 1 edition (Wesleyan Univ Pr, December 1, 1986), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The renowned scholar and author of 'Teacher in America' and 'The House of Intellect,' examines how the urge to be snobbish, prestigious, technical, scientific, and abstract has led the English language astray

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9780819562067 | Reprint edition (Wesleyan Univ Pr, August 1, 1988), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The renowned scholar and author of 'Teacher in America' and 'The House of Intellect,' examines how the urge to be snobbish, prestigious, technical, scientific, and abstract has led the English language astray

Is Democratic Theory for Export

By Jacques Barzun

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9780876412275 | Carnegie Council on Ethics &, December 1, 1986, cover price $4.00

Teacher in America

Product Description: Now considered a classic, this volume is one of the most widely read and highly acclaimed works ever published in the field of education. It is a provocative, often witty and irreverent personal commentary on teaching by one of America's most brilliant philosophers and historians...read more

By Jacques Barzun

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9780913966785 | Liberty Fund, April 1, 1981, cover price $24.00

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9780819154477 | Reissue edition (Univ Pr of Amer, September 1, 1986), cover price $46.99 | About this edition: Now considered a classic, this volume is one of the most widely read and highly acclaimed works ever published in the field of education.

9780913966792 | Liberty Fund, April 1, 1981, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: The old plan and purpose of teaching the young what they truly need to know survives only in the private sector.

On Writing, Editing, and Publishing: Essays Explicative and Hortatory

Essays by a literary master illuminate the nature of writing, and offer concrete advice on the art of composition

By Jacques Barzun

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9780226038582 | 2 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1986), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Essays by a literary master illuminate the nature of writing, and offer concrete advice on the art of composition

Pleasures of Music: An Anthology of Writing About Music and Musicians from Cellini to Bernard Shaw

Criticism by Chesterton, De Quincey, and Luther, letters by Goethe, Mozart, and Schumann, and eulogies for Palestrina and Beethoven are among the selections included in a collection of writings on music

By Jacques Barzun (editor)

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9780226038544 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 1984, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Criticism by Chesterton, De Quincey, and Luther, letters by Goethe, Mozart, and Schumann, and eulogies for Palestrina and Beethoven are among the selections included in a collection of writings on music

Critical Questions: On Music and Letters Culture and Biography 1940-1980

Essays discuss musical esthetics, biography, criticism, social commentary, and the relationship between art and our perception of reality

By Jacques Barzun

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9780226038636 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 1983, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss musical esthetics, biography, criticism, social commentary, and the relationship between art and our perception of reality

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9780226038643, titled "Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980" | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 1984), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss musical esthetics, biography, criticism, social commentary, and the relationship between art and our perception of reality

Berlioz and His Century: An Introduction to Age of Romanticism

The influential French composer is viewed as a man and an artist in this comprehensive study (view table of contents)

By Jacques Barzun

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9780226038612 | Univ of Chicago Pr, August 15, 1982, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The influential French composer is viewed as a man and an artist in this comprehensive study

Bibliophile of the Future: His Complaints About the Twentieth Century

Product Description: Limited to 1000 copies. Fourth Annual Maury A. Bromsen Lecture on Humanistic Bibliography, by a noted and highly respected scholar of European intellectual history and author of many works on that subject. Presents his view on the future of book collecting...read more

By Jacques Barzun

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9780890730485 | Boston Public Library, June 1, 1976, cover price $3.00 | About this edition: Limited to 1000 copies.

Classic, Romantic and Modern

Drawing from the works of influential figures in art and literature, the author traces the development of romanticism from classicism and the emergence of the modern ego

By Jacques Barzun

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9780226038520 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1975, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Drawing from the works of influential figures in art and literature, the author traces the development of romanticism from classicism and the emergence of the modern ego

Use and Abuse of Art

Product Description: The lecturer traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.

By Jacques Barzun

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9780691018041 | Bollingen Foundation, June 1, 1975, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The lecturer traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.

Of Human Freedom

By Jacques Barzun

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Hardcover:

9780837193212 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1964, cover price $39.95

The Energies of Art: Studies of Authors, Classic and Modern

By Jacques Barzun

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9780837168562 | Reprint edition (Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1956), cover price $76.50

New Letters of Berlioz, 1830-1868.

Product Description: Letters of French composer Hector Berlioz 1830 to 1868. Introduction, Notes and English Translation by Jacques Barzun. Text in French and English, on facing pages.

By Jacques Barzun and Hector Berlioz

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9780837132518 | 2 edition (Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1954), cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Letters of French composer Hector Berlioz 1830 to 1868.

God's Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love Spiced With a Few Harsh Words

By Jacques Barzun

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Hardcover:

9780837168609 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1954, cover price $36.95

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