In these essays, Kimball examines the influences that have shaped our 21st century culture, re-evaluating prominent authors and philosophers who have contributed to and commented on the culture. The lively writing is more concerned with literature and literary criticism than philosophy which plays a secondary role.
Reality has a bad habit of sneaking up on its deniers and biting them on the rump. In EXPERIMENTS AGAINST REALITY, Roger Kimball traces a straight line progression of thought in this century as he attempts to explain how Western culture has come under continuous assault by those who refuse to admit the existence of the "real" part of reality.
This is one of my favorite books and a person could hardly do better than to purchase the two for one Amazon deal that includes "The Long March." I thought of reviewing "Experiments...
