Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age

Roger Kimball examines how influential poets and thinkers, from T. E. Hulme to Eliot and Auden, sought alternatives to the intellectual and spiritual challenges of their time. He then explores how philosophers like Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Foucault have confronted—or avoided—modernity's moral imperatives. Finally, Kimball critiques contemporary culture, including the art world's triviality and academia's attacks on truth and rationality.