Spoilt Rotten

The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality

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Theodore Dalrymple

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Paperback / softback

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In this perceptive and witty book, Theodore Dalrymple unmasks the hidden sentimentality that is suffocating public life. Under the multiple guises of raising children well, caring for the underprivileged, assisting the less able and doing good generally, we are achieving quite the opposite. Dalrymple takes the reader on both an entertaining and at times shocking journey through social, political, popular and literary issues as diverse as child tantrums, aggression, educational reform, honour killings, sexual abuse, public emotions and the role of suffering, and shows the perverse results when we abandon logic in favour of the cult of feeling.

Author Biography:

Theodore Dalrymple is the pseudonym of Dr Anthony Daniels, a former prison doctor in Birmingham. He writes frequently for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and the Spectator where he had a column. This is his seventh book.

Release date Australia

July 7th, 2011

Author

Theodore Dalrymple

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

256

Dimensions

129x198x20

ISBN-13

9781906142254

Product ID

10175462

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