{"product_id":"9781785780936","title":"How to Sound Cultured: Master the 250 Names That Intellectuals Love to Drop into Conversation","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Damn, all my cheating secrets revealed. In book form' —Stephen Fry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich philosopher had the maddest hairstyle? Which novelist drank 50 cups of black coffee every day? What on earth did Simone de Beauvoir see in Jean-Paul Sartre?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Sound Cultured\u003c\/i\u003e offers a wry and yet profoundly useful look inside the mirrored palaces of high culture. Covering such inscrutable characters as Heidegger, Montaigne, Kahlo and Lévi-Strauss (apparently not just a designer of jeans), inscrutable polymaths Thomas W. Hodgkinson and Hubert van den Bergh — the author of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eHow to Sound Clever\u003c\/i\u003e — have done the hard work of sorting the cultural wheat from the chaff.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead this book and you’ll never again mistake Rimbaud for Rambo or Georg Lukacs for George Lucas, you’ll know precisely when 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Icon Books, Ltd. UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046989021424,"sku":"9781785780936","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781785780936_p0.jpg?v=1763729069","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781785780936","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}