How To Sound Cultured

Covering such inscrutable characters as Martin Heidegger, Michel de Montaigne, Karl Popper, and Claude L?vi-Strauss (apparently not just a designer of jeans), writer Hubert van den Bergh?author of the best-selling?How to Sound Clever?and journalist Thomas W. Hodgkinson offer you a wry look inside the mirrored palaces of high culture. Read this book and you’ll never again mistake Hegel for Engels, you’ll know when precisely to drop Foucault’s name into a conversation and how to pronounce “Borgesian,” and you’ll learn many more essential pointers for the intellectual life.