ISBN:
9781771960472
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print versionKingwell, Mark, 1963-, author Measure yourself against the earth
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Popular culture Philosophy
;
Culture Philosophy
;
Popular culture - Philosophy
;
Culture ; Philosophy
;
Popular culture ; Philosophy
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Zizek meets Klein in this riveting collection of philosophic essays on politics, Sex and the City, Plato, Hitchcock and more.
Abstract:
Intro -- Introduction: The Asshole Effect and the Honeymoon of Stupidity -- Travelling Reflections -- The Barbed Gift of Leisure -- Bright Stroll, Big City -- Walking Downtown -- Urban Pleasures -- Hotel Bars and the Female Cruise -- Building Cities, Making Friends -- Writers and Writing -- Prisons Without Bars -- Self-Made Men -- Serial Killers -- Our Insidious Foes and the Plot Against America -- Saints, Sinners, and Exiles -- Parties, Parties, More Parties -- Ethical Concerns -- Reading, Writing, and Consciousness -- The Ethics of Ethics and Literature -- Can We Talk About Evil? -- 'We Shall Look Into It Tomorrow' -- Words About Images -- In the Third Place -- Drawing Mies in Barcelona -- Worlds of Wonder -- Faces of Chaotic Beauty -- Art's Unmediated Middles -- Meditations Personal & Political -- Slack Enters the System -- On the Ausable -- Frank's Motel -- Democracy's Gift.
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