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Not with a bang but a whimper : the politics of culture and decline (edició 2008)

de Theodore Dalrymple

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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. In Not with a Bang But a Whimper, he takes the measure of our cultural decline, with special attention to Britain-its bureaucratic muddle, oppressive welfare mentality, and aimless youth-all pursued in the name of democracy and freedom. He shows how terrorism and the growing numbers of Muslim minorities have changed our public life. Also here are Mr. Dalrymple's trenchant observations on artists and ideologues, and on the questionable treatment of criminals and the mentally disturbed, his area of medical interest.… (més)

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Títol:	Not with a bang but a whimper : the politics of culture and decline
Autors:	Theodore Dalrymple
Informació:	Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2008.
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Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline de Theodore Dalrymple

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Another excellent collection of essays, this one culminating in a final sentence that chilled my soul after I read it. (

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Stubb | Aug 28, 2018 |

This seems little disjoint and rambling as a complete work, but improves as it progresses. The later chapters offer an interesting critique of modern social conditions and policy in the UK. (

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casper52 | Mar 16, 2011 |

A first rate collection of argumentative essays, some with literary themes, and some with sociological or political, but all based in a view of England as a declining culture, sliding into a mire of socialist deceit. If you are a socialist you will probably not read it, if you are a conservative you will be more staunchly so after having read it. If you are neither you will probably with its reading have enjoyed a melancholy trip through a decaying cultural landscape in the company of someone with great erudition and literary skills. (

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jahn | Aug 9, 2010 |

Dalrymple (a pseudonym) is a doctor and psychiatrist who has worked with the poor and the criminal, and witnessed first hand the effects of being trapped in the underclass. While he writes brilliantly, and captures the essence of the decline of a culture, after the first half of the book, the tone becomes unremitting. Best savoured as essays in their original form, this is a book to be read in a series of short bursts: it's too depressing (although terrifyingly accurate) to be swallowed whole (

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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. In Not with a Bang But a Whimper, he takes the measure of our cultural decline, with special attention to Britain-its bureaucratic muddle, oppressive welfare mentality, and aimless youth-all pursued in the name of democracy and freedom. He shows how terrorism and the growing numbers of Muslim minorities have changed our public life. Also here are Mr. Dalrymple's trenchant observations on artists and ideologues, and on the questionable treatment of criminals and the mentally disturbed, his area of medical interest.

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