{"product_id":"9780571324514","title":"The Suspecting Glance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Suspecting Glance\u003c\/i\u003e (first published in 1972) collects Conor  Cruise O'Brien's four T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures as delivered at the  University of Kent, Canterbury, in November 1969. The lectures were  inspired by O'Brien's experience of holding the Albert Schweitzer Chair  in Humanities at New York University from 1965-9, and there teaching  students in whom he noted burning radical convictions but also a  disconcerting 'lack of suspicion in those bright, young eyes'. Whereas  to O'Brien's mind the 'suspecting glance' was a mark of political  maturity that had to be first directed at one's own opinions prior to  decrying another's.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrien's Eliot lectures were, as his  friend Frank Callanan noted, a 'corrective gesture' toward his New York  experience. In them he considers four writers - Machiavelli, Burke,  Nietzsche, Yeats - whom he reads as being 'profoundly aware of the  resource and versatility of violence and deception in man, in society,  and in themselves'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123783024880,"sku":"9780571324514","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571324514_p0.jpg?v=1763719176","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571324514","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}