The Pleasure of Thinking

Theodore Dalrymple (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2025
Gibson Square Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-908096-64-7 (ISBN)

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Theodore Dalrymple's witty and thought-provoking essays explore the joys of intellectual engagement through literature, biography, philosophy, science, and history, enriched by personal anecdotes from his time as a prison doctor and psychiatrist.

What is the connection between God and East Sheen? How do you talk your way out of an Albanian jail? Why do dictators love to make comic books? How does a missed penalty-kick lead to a bloody war? Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist who gives expert witness in murder cases, has a passion for sideways thinking. In The Pleasure of Thinking he takes us on a witty and erudite voyage along the hidden pathways that bring ideas together. At once light-hearted and enlightening, it is an amusing flight of the imagination in which we discover the happy accidents that befall those who remain endlessly curious.

Theodore Dalrymple spent the first part of his career as doctor in deprived parts of Africa and South America. When he returned to England he joined the Prison Service as a GP and psychiatrist in London's East End and later inner-city Birmingham. He is a regular contributor to, among others, The Times, the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Spectator, British Medical Journal, the Australian and he has a column in The Oldie and City Journal.

Small Beginnings

1 Suburban
Son

2 Artful
Sincerity

3 Enemy
of the People

4 The
Glow of Angels

5 Mrs
Buggins

6 How
to Be Colour Blind

7 But
Is It Safe?

8 Good
People and Stuff

9 Free
Hands

10 Pools
Full of Water

11 Glaring
Light

12 A
White Van

13 The
Present State

14 Scaling
the Revolution

15 Discounted
Souls

16 Carting
Harlots

17 The
Fight Against Absurdity

18 Darling
Passions

19 Comic
Dictators

20 Positive
Thinking

21 Bohemians
& Foreigners

22 Dirty
Words

23 Stealing
Time

24 An
Overdose of Growing Up

25 Arsenic
and Raspberries

26 Heaven
and Hell

27 Scalp
Hunting

28 False
Economies

29 Hair-Combing
Pedants

30 Magical
Thinking

31 Self-Satisfaction

32 Self-Improvement

33 Room
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Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.5.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-908096-64-0 / 1908096640
ISBN-13	978-1-908096-64-7 / 9781908096647
Zustand	Neuware