{"title":"Theodore Dalrymple","description":"Theodore Dalrymple is a psychiatrist and former prison doctor. He is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor for City Journal and writes for the National Review and Wall Street Journal. He is the author of several books, including the acclaimed Life at the Bottom.","products":[{"product_id":"anything-goes-paperback","title":"Anything Goes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eTheodore Dalrymple's work focuses on the moral decay of modern culture and the pernicious effect of political correctness on society. Anything Goes is a collection of some of his finest work written between 2005 and 2009 for New English Review. A note on the cover from New English Review Press: This jazz age photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston reflects the classical conviction that the human form expresses a spiritual level of beauty, the artwork of God, if you will. It is also a statement about the essential humanism of Dr. Dalrymple's work. One cannot look at that figure and see an animal or a machine. Rather one sees something truly beautiful and truly human.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377335271647,"sku":"9780578084893","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/kzelQcjgWa9780578084893.webp?v=1789232829"},{"product_id":"out-into-the-beautiful-world-paperback","title":"Out Into The Beautiful World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen I was a young man I thought that metaphysics was the most exciting (and important) thing in the world. I wish now that I had not wasted so much time on the imponderable questions of metaphysics but had used it to more worthwhile effect. Rather than study philosophy, I should have studied insects. In the little essays that follow, I have no grand theory to prove, no single message to convey. Small things and slight occurrences have caught my attention and caused me to reflect a little. I hope only to please the reader. - Theodore Dalrymple\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377605574879,"sku":"9781943003020","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/bnePGxMOh29781943003020.webp?v=1789236175"},{"product_id":"the-terror-of-existence-from-ecclesiastes-to-theatre-of-the-absurd-paperback","title":"The Terror of Existence: From Ecclesiastes to Theatre of the Absurd - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cultural death of God has created a conundrum for intellectuals. How could a life stripped of ultimate meaning be anything but absurd? How was man to live? How could he find direction in a world of no direction? What would be tell his children that could make their lives worthwhile? What is the ground of morality?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExistentialism is the literary \u003cem\u003ecri de coeur\u003c\/em\u003e resulting from the realization that without God, everything good, true and beautiful in human life is destined to be destroyed in a pitiless material cosmos. Theodore Dalrymple and Kenneth Francis examine the main existentialist works, from Ecclesiastes to the Theatre of the Absurd, each man coming from a different perspective. Francis is a believer, Dalrymple is not, but both empathize with the struggle to find meaning in a seemingly meaningless universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart literary criticism, part philosophical exploration, this book holds many surprising gems of insight from two of the most interesting minds of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377606099167,"sku":"9781943003228","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4RsCR0sDNa9781943003228.webp?v=1789236176"},{"product_id":"nothing-but-wickedness-the-delusions-of-our-culture-paperback","title":"Nothing But Wickedness: The Delusions of Our Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing But Wickedness delves into society's subtle-and some not so subtle-transgressions that contribute to the decline of our culture. Theodore Dalrymple, drawing on his extensive experience as an inner-city GP and prison psychiatrist, examines the underlying factors that drive societal behaviours and self-deception. The book covers a range of thought-provoking topics, including what drives doctors to work for dictators, the benefits of idleness, understanding the mindset of Hitler, why doctors collect body parts, the true meaning of illness, and how war can paradoxically advance medicine. This wide-ranging exploration is a compelling read for the intelligent reader and the Theodore Dalrymple fan. Dalrymple's insights offer a unique perspective on the complexities of human behaviour and cultural decline. Whether you are intrigued by the benefits of idleness, fascinated by the darker side of human nature, or interested in historical and psychological analyses, Nothing But Wickedness promises to be an enlightening and engaging read ranging across many genres like Malcolm Gladwell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377765351647,"sku":"9781783342785","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/oB2Xqot3AG9781783342785.webp?v=1789240132"},{"product_id":"life-at-the-bottom-the-worldview-that-makes-the-underclass-25th-anniversary-edition-paperback","title":"Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass 25th Anniversary Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow in a 25th anniversary edition, featuring a foreword from bestselling author Rob Henderson of the Manhattan Institute and a new postscript from Theodore Dalrymple.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A classic for our times. It is as fundamental for understanding the world we live in as the three R's.\" -Thomas Sowell\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a British psychiatrist who treated the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, Theodore Dalrymple had seemingly seen it all. Yet, in listening to and observing his patients, he has been continually astonished by the latest twist of depravity that exceeds even his own considerable experience. Dalrymple's key insight in \u003ci\u003eLife at the Bottom \u003c\/i\u003eis that long-term poverty is caused not by economics but by a dysfunctional set of values, one that is continually reinforced by an elite culture searching for victims. This culture persuades those at the bottom that they have no responsibility for their actions and are not the molders of their own lives. Drawn from the pages of the cutting-edge political and cultural quarterly \u003ci\u003eCity Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Dalrymple's book draws upon scores of eye-opening, true-life vignettes that are by turns hilariously funny, chillingly horrifying, and all too revealing--sometimes all at once. And Dalrymple writes in prose that transcends journalism and achieves the quality of literature.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378962104543,"sku":"9798216390701","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/v4oN_R2_lC9798216390701.webp?v=1789264871"},{"product_id":"farewell-fear-paperback","title":"Farewell Fear - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFarewell Fear is a collection of Theodore Dalrymple's finest essays written for New English Review between 2009 and 2012. His first such collection was Anything Goes (2011). Once encountered, Theodore Dalrymple has become for many of us a shared treasure-the cultured, often mordantly funny social commentator who was for many years a psychiatrist at a British prison. This collection of recent essays captures Dalrymple at his best, ruminating at one moment about why poisoners tend to be more interesting than other kinds of murderers and at another why Tony Blair's mind reminds him of an Escher drawing. No one else writes so engagingly and so candidly about the world as it is, not as the politically correct would have it be. -- Dr. Charles Murray author of Coming Apart and The Bell Curve\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51379074531551,"sku":"9780985439477","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/eexgp8yqzj9780985439477.webp?v=1789268496"},{"product_id":"admirable-evasions-how-psychology-undermines-morality-paperback","title":"Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAdmirable Evasions\u003c\/i\u003e, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues Dalrymple, they are socially harmful in that they allow those who believe in them to evade personal responsibility for their actions and to put the blame on a multitude of scapegoats: on their childhood, their genes, their neurochemistry, even on evolutionary pressures. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDalrymple reveals how the fashionable schools of psychoanalysis, behaviorism, modern neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology all prevent the kind of honest self-examination that is necessary to the formation of human character. Instead, they promote self-obsession without self-examination, and the gross overuse of medicines that affect the mind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdmirable Evasions\u003c\/i\u003e also considers metaphysical objections to the assumptions of psychology, and suggests that literature is a far more illuminating window into the human condition than psychology could ever hope to be.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51379360235743,"sku":"9781641771887","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/dsUyJwkyyw9781641771887.webp?v=1789272413"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/theodore-dalrymple.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}