Learned Ignorance in the Medicine Bow Mountains: A Reflection on Intellectual PrejudiceThis book is an apologia for the rooted intellectual against the disdainful condescension of the cosmopolitan intellectual—an apology in the Socratic sense of the word. It reflects the author’s Texas rootedness unapologetically and offers a polemical but thoughtful indictment of the intellectual prejudice against rootedness; but it is ultimately about the universal human struggle with origins. |
Contents
Attempts Philosophy as Essay | 1 |
ONE A Good Intellectual Is Hard to Find | 7 |
TWO Mind Forgd Manacles | 15 |
THREE Running and Being | 31 |
FOUR The Queens English or That Awful English Language | 35 |
FIVE Wine of Wyoming | 45 |
SIX Wit and the Art of Conversation | 49 |
SEVEN The Fish | 59 |
TWELVE The Sweet Science and the Competitive Spirit | 105 |
THIRTEEN The Halfe Arsd Angler | 115 |
FOURTEEN Blood Sports and Haute Cuisine | 123 |
FIFTEEN Bread and Wine | 147 |
SIXTEEN Idols of the Academic Theater | 151 |
SEVENTEEN Westward I Go Free | 167 |
BIBLIOGRAPY | 171 |
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