ISBN:
9781926845845
,
9781926845852
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (272 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Unruly Voices : Essays on Democracy, Civility and the Human Imagination
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Imagination Social aspects
;
Courtesy
;
Democracy
;
Political culture
;
Imagination -- Social aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
A new collection by the author of The World We Want, with essays on civility, public space, Obama, procrastination, suicide
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Incivility, Zombies, and Democracy's End; All Show:Justice and the City; The American Gigantic; Masters of Chancery:The Gift of Public Space; Retouching the Void; The Tomist: Francis Fukuyama's Infinite Regression; Throwing Dice: Luck of the Draw and the Democratic Ideal; Intellectuals and Democracy; What Are Intellectuals For? A Modest Proposal in Dialogue Form; "Fuck You" and Other Salutations:Incivility as a Collective Action Problem; The Philosopher President Sets Forth: A Monologue; Wage Slavery, Bullshit, and the Good Infinite; Ways of Not Seeing
Description / Table of Contents:
Language Speaks Us: Sophie's Tree and the Paradox of SelfThe Trick of It: Poetry and the Plane of Immanence; As It Were: On the Metaphysics (or Ethics) of Fiction; Self-Slaughter, Poetry, and the Interfaith Blurb Universe; The (In)dividual, Beyond the Uncanny Valley
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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