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Pathology of the Elites features a fresh voice of social criticism that is likely to raise hackles on both sides of the aisle. Title Pathology of the Elites. Author Biography. Format Hardcover.

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In this bracing collection of provocative essays, Michael Knox Beran examines the false benevolence that characterizes the power classes in contemporary America. Their enlightened pity for their fellow citizens, he charges, conceals an instinct for power rather than compassion. Mr. Beran argues that today's elites have come to rely on a social philosophy that reduces people to a mass of social groups and types, obscures their individual humanity, and makes them easier to manipulate. While they tragically conceive their desire for authority as a form of virtue, the elite classes have set about remaking schools, rewriting the U.S. Constitution, dehumanizing charity, and making war on tradition in the name of a crude form of Social Darwinism. Through readings of such inspired critics of the social imagination as Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Abraham Lincoln, Mr. Beran exposes the romance of dominion that underlies the philosophy of social benevolence, a philosophy that has steadily undermined the older and more valuable tradition that Edmund Burke associated with the moral imagination. In seeking to depose this moral impulse in the pantheon of culture, and enshrine the social imagination in its place, today's elites have weakened not only liberalism but also conservatism-indeed society as a whole. Where the moral imagination is not regularly and habitually cultivated, Mr. Beran observes, where it ceases to have a place in education and art, in schools and in the town square, it becomes more difficult even for the best-intentioned among us to resist the allure of a narrow and obtuse self-righteousness. Pathology of the Elites features a fresh voice of social criticism that is likely to raise hackles on both sides of the aisle.

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Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
ISBN-10
1566638747
ISBN-13
9781566638746
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Book Title
Pathology of the Elites : How the Arrogant Classes Plan to Run Your Life
Author
Michael Beran
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, American Government / General, Essays, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
312 Pages

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9.1in
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1.1in
Item Width
6.3in
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Hn90.E4b47 2010
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Beran demonstrates that literary grace, erudition, and common sense are not contraries. He embodies them., Michael Knox Beran is one of the most eloquent and deeply humane writers in America. It's not just that he dazzles with the breadth of his knowledge of Western literature and American history; he genuinely enlightens. Read this book--and profit., Michael Knox Beran examines the false benevolence that characterizes the power classes in contemporary America. Their enlightened pity for their fellow citizens, he charges, conceals an instinct for power rather than compassion. Beran argues that today's elites have come to rely on a social philosophy that reduces people to a mass of social groups and types, obscures their individual humanity, and makes them easier to manipulate., Michael Knox Beran makes here a bid to revive a lost art--that of the erudite general critic, ranging widely across history, literature, and philosophy in service of a grand critique of our current political scene. The result is a package of edifying essays, leagues removed from the repetitive dreariness and mendacity of what passes for commentary and analysis in much of the mass media today., Michael Knox Beran is one of the most eloquent and deeply humane writers in America. It's not just that he dazzles with the breadth of his knowledge of Western literature and American history; he genuinely enlightens. Read this book "and profit., Michael Knox Beran makes here a bid to revive a lost art "that of the erudite general critic, ranging widely across history, literature, and philosophy in service of a grand critique of our current political scene. The result is a package of edifying essays, leagues removed from the repetitive dreariness and mendacity of what passes for commentary and analysis in much of the mass media today.
Copyright Date
2010
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2010-015699
Dewey Decimal
320.510973
Dewey Edition
22

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