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"Here is a welcome reminder that men can be gentlemen without turning into ladies--or louts."--Michelle Malkin "Miner writes with wit and charm."--Wall Street Journal The Gentleman: An Endangered Species? The catalog of masculine sins grows by the day--mansplaining, manspreading, toxic masculinity--reflecting our confusion over what it means to be a man. Is a man's only choice between the brutish, rutting #MeToo lout and the gelded imitation woman, endlessly sensitive and fun to go shopping with? No. Brad Miner invites you to discover the oldest and best model of manhood-- the gentleman. In this tour de force of popular history and gentlemanly persuasion, Miner lays out the thousand-year history of this forgotten ideal and makes a compelling case for its modern revival. Three masculine archetypes emerge here--the warrior, the lover, and the monk--forming the character of "the compleat gentleman." He cultivates a martial spirit in defense of the true and the beautiful. He treats the opposite sex with passionate respect. And he values learning in pursuit of the truth. Miner's gentleman stands out for the combination of discretion, decorum, and nonchalance that the Renaissance called sprezzatura. He belongs to an aristocracy of virtue, not of wealth or birth, following a lofty code of manly conduct, which, far from threatening democracy, is necessary for its survival.… (más)
Not what I expected, but I love the research in this book. Gave me some good starting points for future research. I wish I had read it and Morte de Arthur at the same time. I enjoyed his opinions. ( )
The compleat gentleman is a fellow you may not recognize at first. He is very much like the medieval knight and the Victorian gentleman, except that he has a more realistic view of women. He is a conservative liberal, a man educated in tradition but not bound by it. He is a conservative liberal, a man educated in tradition but not bound by it. He is like a warrior, because he knows that there are things worth fighting for--and he will fight. He is a lover, because he allows his wife and family to liberate him from the tyranny of ego. He is like a monk, because he employs learning to unlock the mysteries of the human heart. He has that co-mingling of restraint and detachment that we can easily call cool.
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My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed Which is not to be found in our obituaries. . . .
--T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land"
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For Dorothy Caroline Minor May you always know and love compleat gentlemen and be loved by them.
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Although it was originally published in 2004, I wrote The Compleat Gentleman mostly during 2000 and 2001.
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My most sincere apologies to the critic Edmund Wilson, who called it the "Polonius Precept," but he couldn't have been more wrong.
"Here is a welcome reminder that men can be gentlemen without turning into ladies--or louts."--Michelle Malkin "Miner writes with wit and charm."--Wall Street Journal The Gentleman: An Endangered Species? The catalog of masculine sins grows by the day--mansplaining, manspreading, toxic masculinity--reflecting our confusion over what it means to be a man. Is a man's only choice between the brutish, rutting #MeToo lout and the gelded imitation woman, endlessly sensitive and fun to go shopping with? No. Brad Miner invites you to discover the oldest and best model of manhood-- the gentleman. In this tour de force of popular history and gentlemanly persuasion, Miner lays out the thousand-year history of this forgotten ideal and makes a compelling case for its modern revival. Three masculine archetypes emerge here--the warrior, the lover, and the monk--forming the character of "the compleat gentleman." He cultivates a martial spirit in defense of the true and the beautiful. He treats the opposite sex with passionate respect. And he values learning in pursuit of the truth. Miner's gentleman stands out for the combination of discretion, decorum, and nonchalance that the Renaissance called sprezzatura. He belongs to an aristocracy of virtue, not of wealth or birth, following a lofty code of manly conduct, which, far from threatening democracy, is necessary for its survival.
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