Mark Greif

"These essays address such key topics in the cultural, political, and intellectual life of our time as the tyranny of exercise, the tyranny of nutrition and food snobbery, the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), the philosophical meaning of Radiohead, the rise and fall of the hipster, the impact of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the crisis of policing. Four of the selections address, directly and unironically, the meaning of life what might be the right philosophical stance to adopt toward one's self and the world." -- Amazon.com.

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Against Everything

brendan sudol

Nick Simson

"The instant for philosophy is always now, and every day, because some of us need a lifetime for it. We are slow learners."

A solid collection of critical political and cultural writing spanning the years of 2004 - 2015, with a handful of outstanding essays.

My favorites in this collection:

'Octomom and the Market in Babies' | 'Learning to Rap' | 'Mogadishu, Baghdad, Troy, or Heroes Without War' | 'Seeing Through Police' | 'Thoreau Trailer Park'

Lorena Avila

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olivia olsen

Michael Ernst

Angie Lee

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On Dishonest Times

sam soh

Over the past eleven years, Greif has been publishing superb, and in some cases already famous, essays in n+1, the high-profile little magazine that he co-founded. These essays address such key topics in the cultural, political, and intellectual life of our time as the tyranny of exercise, the tyranny of nutrition and food snobbery, the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), the philosophical meaning of Radiohead, the rise and fall of the hipster, the impact of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the crisis of policing. Four of the selections address, directly and unironically, the meaning of life--what might be the right philosophical stance to adopt toward one's self and the world. Each essay in Against Everything is learned, original, highly entertaining, and, from start to finish, dead serious. They are the work of a young intellectual who, with his peers, is reinventing and reinvigorating what intellectuals can be and say and do. Mark Greif manages to reincarnate and revivify the thought and spirit of the greatest of American dissenters, Henry David Thoreau, for our time and historical situation.--Publisher website.

Against Everything Essays

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