Theodore Dalrymple: 17 books
by Theodore Dalrymple
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
In this incisive and beautifully-written collection of essays retired doctor Theodore Dalrymple writes about subjects as diverse as the legalisation of drugs, the death of Princess Diana and Marxism.
Each of the twenty six essys are a gem and Dalrymple writes with an insight and clarity that...
Not With A Bang But A Whimper
The Politics and Culture of Decline
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
A beautifully-written and thought-provoking collection of essays on social, political and literary issues as diverse as violent crime on Britain's streets, the effects of the welfare state, modern architecture and the respective merits of Shakespeare and Dr. Johnson. Dalrymple uses examples from his...
by Theodore Dalrymple
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 21, 2012
`Een heldere en geestige analyse.' De Groene Amsterdammer Hoe andersmans rotzooi ons leven bepaalt Onderweg van Glasgow naar Londen zag Theodore Dalrymple hoe zeshonderd kilometer lang praktisch elke meter bermbezaaid lag met slierten afval die wapperden in de wind. En hij vroeg zich af: Hoe komt...
by Theodore Dalrymple
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Kritiek op de sentimentele samenleving In dit scherpzinnige en geestige boek ontmaskert Theodore Dalrymple de verhulde sentimentaliteit die het publieke leven verstikt. We doen net of we onze kinderen goed opvoeden, zorgen voor de minder bedeelden, de kansarmen helpen en geweldige dingen presteren,...
Second Opinion
A Doctor's Dispatches from the Inner City
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Last week, a patient arrived in the prison, a fit (though presumably not very skilful) young burglar. ‘Are you on any treatment?’ I asked him. ‘Yes,’ he said. ‘DF 118, diazzies and amitrippiline.’ An opiate analgesic, an addictive tranquilliser and an anti-depressant. ‘Why?’ I asked....
Admirable Evasions
How Psychology Undermines Morality
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues Dalrymple, they...
The New Vichy Syndrome
Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time. On the one hand, Europeans believe they have at last created an ideal social and political system in which man can live comfortably. In many ways, things have never been better on the old continent. On the...
Not With a Bang But a Whimper
The Politics and Culture of Decline
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Theodore Dalrymple's new book of essays follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier collections, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It. No social critic today is more adept and incisive in exploring the state of our culture and the ideas that are changing our ways of life....
Spoilt Rotten
The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
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,...
Litter
The Remains of Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
'What a book.' Clive Aslet, Country Life 'Characteristically brilliant.' Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times 'A little oasis of sanity.' Daily Mail. Driving the four hundred miles from Glasgow to London, Theodore Dalrymple found practically every yard of roadside to be littered with rubbish flapping in the...
by Paul Kennedy, Bernie Lucht, Lister Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
An electrifying collection of thought-provoking interviews from recent broadcasts of CBC Radios Ideas. In these remarkable dialogues most of them in the company of Ideas host Paul Kennedy some of the great intellectuals of our time reflect, interject, and project on the course of human civilization,...
The Pleasure of Thinking
A Journey through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
What is the connection between God and East Sheen? How do you talk your way out of an Albanian jail? Why do dictators love to make comic books? How does a missed penalty-kick lead to a bloody war? Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist who gives expert witness in murder cases, has a passion for sideways...
In Praise of Prejudice
How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Today, the word prejudice has come to seem synonymous with bigotry; therefore the only way a person can establish freedom from bigotry is by claiming to have wiped his mind free from prejudice. English psychiatrist and writer Theodore Dalrymple shows that freeing the mind from prejudice is not only impossible,...
by Theodore Dalrymple
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
On the street, which was ankle-deep in discarded fast-food wrappings, I saw a woman who had pulled down her trousers and tied a pair of plastic breasts to her bare buttocks, while a man crawled after her on the sidewalk, licking them. At midnight along this street – with the sound of rock music...
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