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As the title might suggest, Mark Greif’s essays found in Against Everything are specimens of cultural critique, delivered on topics as disparate as the tyranny of exercise and the emancipatory potential of a universal basic income, a taxonomy of reality TV and the true purpose of the police. Greif is at his best—his most penetrating and his most engaging—when delving into topics that.
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.
Mark Greif composed the essays in his 2016 collection,. The first essay, “Against Exercise,” takes as its subject the grinding routine of the gym. The second piece, “Afternoon of the Sex Children,” considers the relation between the widespread sexualization of young people and the opprobrium hurled at pedophilia. The third essay explores the link between narcissism and food security.
Mark Greif composed the essays in his 2016 collection, Against Everything, over the ten-year span during which Donald Trump consolidated his place in the popular imagination. To read Greif in the aftermath of Trump’s victory is to marvel at the sharpness of his powers of observation, the fineness of his moral vision — and to understand more clearly how the American intelligentsia.
London, United Kingdom: Verso Books, 2017. -. Paperback. Against Everything is a thought-provoking study and essential guide to the vicissitudes of everyday life under twenty-first-century capitalism. Mark Greif is one of the most exciting writers of his generation. In this invigorating collection, he challenges us to rethink the ordinary world and take life seriously - in short, to stay.
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The essays in Against Everything are learned, original, highly entertaining, and, from start to finish, dead serious, reinventing and reinvigorating what intellectuals can be and say and do. Key topics are the tyranny of exercise, the folly of food snobbery, the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), the philosophical meaning of.