Slouching Toward Utopia

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Literary Nonfiction. Politics. SLOUCHING TOWARD UTOPIA is George Scialabba' s fifth collection from Pressed Wafer, following WHAT ARE INTELLECTUALS GOO D FOR (2009), THE MODERN PREDICAMENT (2011), FOR THE REPUBLIC (2013), and LOW DISHONEST DECADES (2016). Like the others, SLOUCHING TOWARD UTOPIA feat ures trenchant commentary on contemporary politics and culture, couched in graceful and limpid prose. In addition to reviews of Samuel Huntington, Iva n Illich, Alexander Cockburn, and Mark Lilla, along with a dozen others, th ere is a symposium contribution on identity politics, two long interviews a bout intellectuals and American politics, and the title essay, a lecture of fering an original meditation on how to get past the conventional wisdom ab out political morality and begin to at least stumble toward utopia. Samuel Moyn has called George Scialabba "a national treasure of long standing" and "our preeminent chronicler of American public intellectuals," and says that "this new collection of his inimitable essays and reviews is one every serious reader needs." Art Goldhammer calls SLOUCHING TOWARD UTOPIA "a collection of elegant, erudite, eminently humane meditations.that illuminate these dark days of the Republic with admirable intellectual rigor. [Scialabba's] is a quiet voice that needs to be heard above the raucous cacophony that dominates our public space." In his Foreword to SLOUCHING TOWARD UTOPIA, Jedediah Purdy praises Scialabba for writing "lucidly about benightedness, vivi.

Product Info

ISBN: 1940396425

ISBN-13: 9781940396422

Publisher: Pressed Wafer

Year: 2018

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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