In Defense of Women de H. L. Mencken

In Defense of Women

H. L. Mencken

As a professional critic of life and letters, my principal business in the world is that of manufacturing platitudes for tomorrow, which is to say, ideas so novel that they will be instantly rejected as insane and outrageous by all right thinking men, and so apposite and sound that they will eventually conquer that instinctive opposition, and force themselves into the traditional wisdom of the race. I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed shelves of yesterday, with new labels stuck rakishly upon them.

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Express

Paperback (6)

46^.19 lei 22-36 zile

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

46^.19 lei 22-36 zile

ARC MANOR – 6 mar 2008

61^.86 lei 43-57 zile

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

68^.23 lei 43-57 zile

Waking Lion Press – 13 mar 2013

72^.49 lei 43-57 zile

Indoeuropeanpublishing.com – 15 iun 2011

97^.37 lei 43-57 zile

COSIMO CLASSICS – 30 iun 2009

118^.58 lei 43-57 zile

Hardback (1)

131^.51 lei 43-57 zile

–

131^.51 lei 43-57 zile

Notă biografică

H. L. Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and expert on American English. He lived from September 12, 1880, until January 29, 1956. He made extensive observations about the social scene, literature, music, well-known politicians, and modern movements. He also attracted notice for his parody reporting on the Scopes Trial, which he nicknamed the "Monkey Trial". Mencken is renowned as a scholar for his work on The American Language, a multi-volume examination of American English dialects. He was a vocal opponent of representative democracy, which he saw as a system in which weaker individuals ruled their superiors, and organized religion. He was a fan of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Mencken opposed osteopathy and chiropractic while supporting scientific advancement. He openly criticized economics as well. For six years, Mencken worked as a reporter for the Herald. The newspaper was bought in June 1906, less than two and a half years after the Great Baltimore Fire, by Gen. Felix Agnus, the rival owner, and publisher of The Baltimore American, the town's oldest (since 1773) and largest daily, and Charles H. Grasty, the owner, and editor of The News since 1892.