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Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality

By Theodore Dalrymple

Book information

Publisher
Gibson Square
Year
2012
ISBN
978-1906142612
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
881 kB (901636 bytes)
Pages
98\98
Time added
2015-03-10 12:33:04

Description

‘Not since Christopher Hitchens assault on Mother Theresa have so many sacred cows been slaughtered in such a short volume.’ Spectator 'One of our most celebrated essayists.' Toby Young, Mail on Sunday '[A] cultural highlight.' Observer 'Surgical demolition.' Guardian In this perceptive and witty book, Theodore Dalrymple unmasks the hidden sentimentality that is suffocating public life. Under the multiple guises of raising children well, caring for the underprivileged, assisting the less able and doing good generally, we are achieving quite the opposite – for the single purpose of feeling good about ourselves. Dalrymple takes the reader on both an entertaining and at times shocking journey through social, political, popular and literary issues as diverse as child tantrums, aggression, educational reform, honour killings, sexual abuse, Che Guevara, Eric Segal, Romeo and Juliet, the McCanns, public emotions and the role of suffering, and shows the perverse results when we abandon logic in favour of the cult of feeling.

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