William Deresiewicz

The End of Solitude (eBook, ePUB)

Selected Essays on Culture and Society

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250125545
• Artikelnr.: 63125312

Autorenporträt

William Deresiewicz

Inhaltsangabe

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 Yoüre 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