Title: Do YOU understand passages like these?
Product review: "The fertile ground for cynicism in modern times is to be found not only in urban culture but also in the courtly sphere. Both are dies of pernicious realism through which human beings learn the crooked smile of open immorality. Here, as there, a sophisticated knowledge accumulates in informed, intelligent minds, a knowledge that moves elegantly back and forth between naked facts and conventional facades." (p. 4)This goes on, more or less like that, until a few pages from the end, p. 544, in "Conclusions", we get:"Under the pressure of suffering in the most recent crises, members of our civilization see themselves forced, quasi-neoclassically, to repeat the "know thyself," and in this they discover their systematic inability to communicate in the way that would guarantee true de-escalation."If you are seeking to read 547 pages of that type of writing, this is your book.
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