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02773aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 7F0E224E866911E89A2B5A1E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180713011132 008 170524s2017 nyu 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0231173814 020 $a 9780231173810 035 $a (OCoLC)987736372 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d TDS $d OCLCF $d IOM $d SILO 050 00 $a B29 $b .B69 2015 082 04 $a 810.9 $2 23 100 1 $a Boyers, Robert, $e author. 240 10 $a Essays. $k Selections 245 14 $a The fate of ideas : $b seductions, betrayals, appraisals / $c Robert Boyers. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 267 pages ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-258) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Authority -- Pleasure -- Reading from the life -- Fidelity -- Saving beauty -- My "others" -- Politics and the novel -- Realism -- The sublime -- Psychoanalysis -- Modernism -- Judgment. 520 $a "As editor of the quarterly Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture, and the arts. Reflecting on his collaborations and quarrels with some of the twentieth century's most transformative writers, artists, and thinkers, Boyers writes a wholly original intellectual memoir that rigorously confronts selected aspects of contemporary society. Organizing his chapters around specific ideas, Boyers anatomizes the process by which they fall in and out of fashion and often confuse those who most ardently embrace them. In provocative encounters with authority, fidelity, 'the other,' pleasure, and a wide range of other topics, Boyers tells colorful stories about his own life and, in the process, studies the fate of ideas in a society committed to change and ill equipped to assess the losses entailed in modernity. Among the writers who appear in these pages are Susan Sontag and V.S. Naipaul, Jamaica Kincaid and J.M. Coetzee, as well as figures drawn from all walks of life, including unfaithful husbands, psychoanalysts, terrorists, and besotted beauty lovers" -- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Philosophy, Modern $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Intellectual life $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Literature, Modern $x Themes, motives. 650 7 $a Intellectual life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00975769 650 7 $a Literature, Modern $x Themes, motives. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000206 650 7 $a Philosophy, Modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01061071 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Essays. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919922 941 $a 1 952 $l PMAX975 $d 20191119044758.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7F0E224E866911E89A2B5A1E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOMInitiate Another SILO Locator Search