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A brilliant collection of critical essays by a young writer who is already a star in the intellectual firmament. As William Deresiewicz has written in Harper’s Magazine, “[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—of thought, of mind—as a conscious actor in the world.” Over the past eleven years, Greif has been publishing superb, and in some cases already famous, essays in n+1, 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, and the crisis of policing. Four of the selections address, directly and unironically, the meaning of life—what might be the right philosophical stance to adopt toward one’s self and the world. Each essay in Against Everything is learned, original, highly entertaining, and, from start to finish, dead serious. They are the work of a young intellectual who, with his peers, is reinventing and reinvigorating what intellectuals can be and say and do. Mark Greif manages to reincarnate and revivify the thought and spirit of the greatest of American dissenters, Henry David Thoreau, for our time and historical situation.
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Pantheon (September 6, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1101871156
ISBN-13: 978-1101871157
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.2 x 9.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #6,191 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Movements & Periods > Modern #29 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Essays & Correspondence > Essays #319 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences
Lively, current and creative without being dry ~ this has got me reading for fun again.
A good example of what a failed essayist looks like. Forget Bagehot or Baldwin, Mann or Mencken, this isn't even approaching the level of Joseph Epstein. If you purchase -or more likely check out from your local library- this book you will find many banal observations; modern people really like exercise! Our children are being sexualized! This book of essays is similar in quality to your favorite daily blogger...and your favorite blogger is free.
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