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A passionate, probing collection gathering nearly thirty years of groundbreaking reflection on culture and society alongside four new essays, by one of our most respected essayists and critics-former Yale English professor and National Book Critics Circle Award-winner William Deresiewicz.
What is the internet doing to us? What is college for? What are the myths and metaphors we live by? These are the questions that William Deresiewicz has been pursuing over the course of his award-winning career. The End of Solitude brings together more than forty of his finest essays, including four that are published here for the first time.
Ranging widely across the culture, they take up subjects as diverse as Mad Men and Harold Bloom, the significance of the hipster, and the purpose of art. Drawing on the past, they ask how we got where we are. Scrutinizing the present, they seek to understand how we can live more mindfully and freely, and they pose two fundamental questions: What does it mean to be an individual, and how can we sustain our individuality in an age of networks and groups?
A passionate, probing collection gathering nearly thirty years of groundbreaking reflection on culture and society alongside four new essays, by one of our most respected essayists and critics-former Yale English professor and National Book Critics Circle Award-winner William Deresiewicz.
What is the internet doing to us? What is college for? What are the myths and metaphors we live by? These are the questions that William Deresiewicz has been pursuing over the course of his award-winning career. The End of Solitude brings together more than forty of his finest essays, including four that are published here for the first time.
Ranging widely across the culture, they take up subjects as diverse as Mad Men and Harold Bloom, the significance of the hipster, and the purpose of art. Drawing on the past, they ask how we got where we are. Scrutinizing the present, they seek to understand how we can live more mindfully and freely, and they pose two fundamental questions: What does it mean to be an individual, and how can we sustain our individuality in an age of networks and groups?
Preface
TECHNOLOGY CULTURE
The End of Solitude
Solitude and Leadership
Faux Friendship
Culture against Culture
The Girl with the High-Speed Connection
The Ghost in the Machine
All in a Dream
HIGHER EDUCATION
The Disadvantages of an Elite Education
The Neoliberal Arts
The Defunding of the American Mind
On Political Correctness
Change Your Mind First: College and the Urge to Save the World
Why I Left Academia (Since You're Wondering)
Heal for America
On the Beach
In Memoriam
THE SOCIAL IMAGINATION
Generation Sell
Heroes
Just Friends
Seeing Things
The True Church
Arms and the Man
Latter-Day Saint
ARTS
The Maker's Hand
Upper Middle Brow
Food, Food Culture, Culture
The Platinum Age
Merce Cunningham: Celestial Mechanics
Mark Morris: Home Coming
Studies Show Arts Have Value
LETTERS
Alfred Kazin: Fiery Particle of Spirit
Harold Rosenberg: The Individual Nuisance
Harold Bloom: The Horror, the Horror
Clive James: Letter to the Twenty-First Century
Mark Greif: Facing Reality
Hunting the Whale
How's That Again?
MY PEOPLE
Birthrights
A Jew in the Northwest
The Limits of Limits
Parade's End
Day of Atonement
Publication Notes
Acknowledgments
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Importe |
| Rubrik: | Sozialwissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781250858634 |
| ISBN-10: | 1250858631 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Deresiewicz, William |
| Hersteller: | Henry Holt & Company Inc |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de |
| Maße: | 228 x 142 x 23 mm |
| Von/Mit: | William Deresiewicz |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 18.09.2023 |
| Gewicht: | 0,328 kg |
Preface
TECHNOLOGY CULTURE
The End of Solitude
Solitude and Leadership
Faux Friendship
Culture against Culture
The Girl with the High-Speed Connection
The Ghost in the Machine
All in a Dream
HIGHER EDUCATION
The Disadvantages of an Elite Education
The Neoliberal Arts
The Defunding of the American Mind
On Political Correctness
Change Your Mind First: College and the Urge to Save the World
Why I Left Academia (Since You're Wondering)
Heal for America
On the Beach
In Memoriam
THE SOCIAL IMAGINATION
Generation Sell
Heroes
Just Friends
Seeing Things
The True Church
Arms and the Man
Latter-Day Saint
ARTS
The Maker's Hand
Upper Middle Brow
Food, Food Culture, Culture
The Platinum Age
Merce Cunningham: Celestial Mechanics
Mark Morris: Home Coming
Studies Show Arts Have Value
LETTERS
Alfred Kazin: Fiery Particle of Spirit
Harold Rosenberg: The Individual Nuisance
Harold Bloom: The Horror, the Horror
Clive James: Letter to the Twenty-First Century
Mark Greif: Facing Reality
Hunting the Whale
How's That Again?
MY PEOPLE
Birthrights
A Jew in the Northwest
The Limits of Limits
Parade's End
Day of Atonement
Publication Notes
Acknowledgments
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Importe |
| Rubrik: | Sozialwissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781250858634 |
| ISBN-10: | 1250858631 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Deresiewicz, William |
| Hersteller: | Henry Holt & Company Inc |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de |
| Maße: | 228 x 142 x 23 mm |
| Von/Mit: | William Deresiewicz |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 18.09.2023 |
| Gewicht: | 0,328 kg |
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