against everything mark greif

Against Everything On Dishonest Times【電子書籍】 Mark GreifAgainst Everything Essays【電子書籍】 Mark Greif
 

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  • <p><em>Against Everything</em> is a thought-provoking study and essential guide to the vicissitudes of everyday life under twenty-first-century capitalism.</p> <p>Mark Greif is one of the most exciting writers of his generation. In this invigorating collection, he challenges us to rethink the ordinary world and take life seriously - in short, to stay honest in dishonest times. In a series of coruscating set pieces he asks why we put ourselves through the pains of exercise, what our concerns about diet or sex does for our fundamental worth, what political identity the hipster might possess, and what happens to us when we listen to Radiohead or hip-hop.</p> <p>Counter-intuitive and revelatory in his insights, Greif revels in the contradictions arising between our desires and the excuses we make to console ourselves. His work demands we have the courage to be 'against everything', to change our vantage on everyday life, find it wanting and demand something better.</p>画...
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  • <p>A brilliant collection of essays by a young writer who is already a star in the intellectual firmament. As William Deresiewicz has written in <em>Harper’s Magazine,</em> “[Mark Greif ] is an intellectual, full stop . . . There is much of [Lionel] Trilling in Greif . . . Much also of Susan Sontag . . . What he shares with both, and with the line they represent, is precisely a sense of intellectーof thought, of mindーas a conscious actor in the world.”</p> <p>Over the past eleven years, Greif has been publishing superb, and in some cases already famous, essays in <em>n+1</em>, the high-profile little magazine that he co-founded. These essays address such key topics in the cultural, political, and intellectual life of our time as the tyranny of exercise, the tyranny of nutrition and food snobbery, the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), the philosophical meaning of Radiohead, the rise and fall of the hipster, the impact of the Occupy Wall Street movement,...
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