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In Praise of Folly: The Blind-spots of Our Mind

By Theodore Dalrymple

Book information

Publisher
Gibson Square
Year
2019
ISBN
9781783341429, 9781783341412
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
405 kB (414627 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-09 09:34:32
Essays; Psychology; Sociology; Nonfiction; SOC0220

Description

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.

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