In the Marketplace of Ideas Cover

40 pages
7.5 x 7.5 x .15 inches

Full Color Throughout

First published by the Babbington Press in 2008 in an edition limited to fewer than one hundred printed copies.

Paperback: $ 14.50


 

In the Marketplace of Ideas

B. W. Beath

If you were to wander through the marketplace of ideas, would the experience be like strolling through one of the arcades of Paris that so fascinated Baudelaire and Benjamin, regarding the goods on display, assessing them, making selections, taking your selections home, making use of them, making them yours?

Or would you find that the ideas in the marketplace are like attractively packaged, cleverly marketed, branded and trademarked, seductive, beguiling, bedazzling, and befuddling toys, and that the marketplace of ideas is a labyrinthine arcade where you would roam like a child in a vast toy store, dazzled by the tempting choices that surround you, besotted by the plenitude, paralyzed by indecision?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bertram W. Beath, “BW” to those who know him best, was for a time a restaurant reviewer for Boston Biweekly. He is now a peripatetic flâneur, wandering here, there, and everywhere in search of beauty and pleasure. Beath is the alter ego of Matthew Barber, a boyhood friend of Peter Leroy, whose memoirs, The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy, are a voluminous work of fiction by Eric Kraft.

ABOUT THE LIMITED EDITION
In the Marketplace of Ideas will eventually be incorporated in a longer work. However, this standalone edition is limited to fewer than one hundred printed copies, of which three are designated proof copies and fewer than ninety-seven are for sale.

 





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