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Against Everything: Essays

Against Everything: Essays

Greif, Mark

Paperback

Letters & EssaysLiterary CriticismGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 1101971746
ISBN13: 9781101971741
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Aug 8 2017
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

The essays in Against Everything are learned, original, highly entertaining, and, from start to finish, dead serious, reinventing and reinvigorating what intellectuals can be and say and do. Key topics are the tyranny of exercise, the folly of food snobbery, the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), the philosophical meaning of pop music, the rise and fall of the hipster, the uses of reality TV, the impact of protest movements, and the crisis of policing. Four of the selections address, directly and unironically, the meaning of life--how to find a philosophical stance to adopt toward one's self and the world. Mark Greif manages to revivify the thought and spirit of the greatest of American dissenters, Henry David Thoreau, for our time and historical situation.

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