How to Sound Cultured

Język: Angielski Okładka: Miękka Ilość stron: 382 Stan: Nowy Damn all my cheating secrets revealed. In book form' --Stephen Fry Which philosopher had the maddest hairstyle? Which novelist drank 50 cups of black coffee every day? What on earth did Simone de Beauvoir see in Jean-Paul Sartre? How to Sound Cultured offers a wry and yet profoundly useful look inside the mirrored palaces of high culture. Covering such inscrutable characters as Heidegger Montaigne Kahlo and L�vi-Strauss (apparently not just a designer of jeans) inscrutable polymaths Thomas W. Hodgkinson and Hubert van den Bergh -- the author of the acclaimed How to Sound Clever -- have done the hard work of sorting the cultural wheat from the chaff.