LEADER 03160nam 22005415 450 001 9910778091903321 005 20221116184443.0 010 $a1-282-08954-4 010 $a9786612089541 010 $a0-300-14540-3 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300145403 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764859 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23049974 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000211652 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11184995 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000211652 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10341711 035 $a(PQKB)10151095 035 $a(DE-B1597)485373 035 $a(OCoLC)506072017 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300145403 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420439 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764859 100 $a20200424h20082008 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNobility of Spirit $eA Forgotten Ideal /$fRob Riemen 210 1$aNew Haven, CT :$cYale University Press,$d[2008] 210 4$d©2008 215 $a1 online resource (160 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-13690-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 113-114). 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPrelude: Dinner at the River Café --$tThe Quest of Thomas Mann --$tUntimely Conversations on Timely Questions --$tBe Brave --$tSelected Bibliography --$tAuthor's Note 330 $aIn the pages of this slim, powerful book Rob Riemen argues with passion that "nobility of spirit" is the quintessence of a civilized world. It is, as Thomas Mann believed, the sole corrective for human history. Without nobility of spirit, culture vanishes. Yet in the early twenty-first century, a time when human dignity and freedom are imperiled, the concept of nobility of spirit is scarcely considered. Riemen insists that if we hope to move beyond the war on terror and create a life-affirming culture, we must address timeless but neglected questions: What is a good society? Why art? Why culture? What is the responsibility of intellectuals? Why anti-Americanism? Why nihilism? Why the cult of death of fundamentalists? In a series of three essays, the author identifies nobility of spirit in the life and work of Baruch Spinoza and of Thomas Mann; explores the quest for the good society in our own time; and addresses the pursuit of truth and freedom that engaged figures as disparate as Socrates and Leone Ginzburg, a Jewish Italian intellectual murdered by Nazis. "The forces now aligned against humanistic values are manifold," observes George Steiner in the foreword to the book. In this imaginative and compelling volume, Riemen addresses these forces and speaks to every reader who believes in the power of classical ideas to restore Western civilization's highest values. 606 $aNobility of character 615 0$aNobility of character. 676 $a170 700 $aRiemen$b Rob$f1962-$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01576393 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778091903321 996 $aNobility of Spirit$93854143 997 $aUNINA