I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with .

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. One-of-a-kind cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author Chuck K losterman "offers up great facts, interesting cultural insights, and though t-provoking moral calculations in this look at our love affair with the ant i-hero" (New York magazine). Chuck Klosterman, "The Ethicist" for The New York Times Magazine, has walke d into the darkness. In I Wear the Black Hat, he questions the modern under standing of villainy. When we classify someone as a bad person, what are we really saying, and why are we so obsessed with saying it How does the cul ture of malevolence operate What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli W hy don't we see Bernhard Goetz the same way we see Batman Who is more wort hy of our vitriol--Bill Clinton or Don Henley What was O.J. Simpson's seco nd-worst decision And why is Klosterman still haunted by some kid he knew for one week in 1985 Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and imaginative hypotheticals, I Wear the Black Hat delivers perceptive observations on the complexity of the antihero (seemingly the only kind of hero America still creates). As the Los Angeles Times notes: "By underscoring the contradictory, often knee-jerk ways we encounter the heroes and villains of our culture, Klosterman illustrates the passionate but incomplete computations that have come to define American culture--and maybe even American morality." I Wear the Black Hat is a rare example of serious criticism that's instantly accessible and really, r.

Product Info

ISBN: 143918450X

ISBN-13: 9781439184509

Publisher: Scribner Book Company

Year: 2014

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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