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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-101101871156
ISBN-139781101871157
eBay Product ID (ePID)219224638
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Book TitleAgainst Everything : Essays
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TopicModern / General, Essays
GenreLiterary Criticism, Social Science, Literary Collections
AuthorMark Greif
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight20.5 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-003116
Reviews"Mark Greif writes a contrarian, skeptical prose that is at the same time never cynical: it opens out on to beauty and the possibility of change." ⎻⎻ Zadie Smith "The ideas and images I discover in Mark Greif's essays stay with me for years, and become part of the way I experience and understand the world. I couldn't be happier that this book is being published so I can read them all over again." ⎻⎻ Sheila Heti "Mark Greif is the best essayist of my generation. No one is more modern or more classical - or more stylish. This has its alarming effects. When you read Against Everything , you will vow to change your life." ⎻⎻ Adam Thirlwell "Mark Greif's essays can cut, they can connect, and they can soar. Greif inhabits the center of all his subjects, from Nietzsche to Nas, but there is no display or cynicism here, only a powerful mind thinking hard about our culture and our politics. 'The instant for philosophy is always now,' he writes, because it can take forever. Now is Mark Greif's time." ⎻⎻ Sean Wilentz "Mark Greif is one of the most consistently interesting American writers of the last decade, and this book proves it. I read him for the pleasure of never knowing where his brain's going next. Here's the first sentence of his essay on cops: 'A surprise of being around police is how much they touch you.' That's the kind of weird and accurate observation I want from an essayist. Get down with a writer who's dogged in his attempt to understand us better, and wise in knowing it's hopeless." --John Jeremiah Sullivan "Anyone who hasn't discovered Mark Greif's unforgettable essays yet in the pages of n+1 --the country's most powerful literary mag, which he cofounded--will thank me for demanding you rush out to buy his grasp-you-by-the-throat collection Against Everything . Like James Wood or Susan Sontag, George Orwell or Randall Jarrell, Greif defines our age yet writes with such wit and grace, he'll last forever. A must-read collection by one of our preeminent thinkers." --Mary Karr "I love Mark Greif. No living essayist effects the destruction of everything other people hold dear with a lighter or more elegant touch. An unmitigated delight." --Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed "Mark Greif's book proposes the impossible thing, a phenomenology of the present─at a moment in which the present is slipping by so fast that anything we dare call that is already signed, sealed and delivered to the past. Hip hop, food shows, current events like war and the police, hipsters, exercises, the youth culture─ this list omits the deliberate and attractive heterogeneity of Greif's notes on the everyday, his attempt to capture its random contents before they are incorporated into some official academic field or trivialized into familiar themes and slogans by an omnivorous public sphere. It isn't a novel, it isn't a journal either (which you could 'dip into'), it's probably not a blog, it is deliberately unfinished (in the sense of 'to be continued', but maybe by all or each of us); but it is certainly wonderful reading which cuts into the present before the latter disappears." --Frederic Jameson, "Anyone who hasn't discovered Mark Greif's unforgettable essays yet in the pages of n+1 --the country's most powerful literary mag, which he cofounded--will thank me for demanding you rush out to buy his grasp-you-by-the-throat collection Against Everything . Like James Wood or Susan Sontag, George Orwell or Randall Jarrell, Greif defines our age yet writes with such wit and grace, he'll last forever. A must-read collection by one of our preeminent thinkers." ⎻⎻Mary Karr "I love Mark Greif. No living essayist effects the destruction of everything other people hold dear with a lighter or more elegant touch. An unmitigated delight." ⎻⎻Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed "Mark Greif's book proposes the impossible thing, a phenomenology of the present─at a moment in which the present is slipping by so fast that anything we dare call that is already signed, sealed and delivered to the past. Hip hop, food shows, current events like war and the police, hipsters, exercises, the youth culture─ this list omits the deliberate and attractive heterogeneity of Greif's notes on the everyday, his attempt to capture its random contents before they are incorporated into some official academic field or trivialized into familiar themes and slogans by an omnivorous public sphere. It isn't a novel, it isn't a journal either (which you could 'dip into'), it's probably not a blog, it is deliberately unfinished (in the sense of 'to be continued', but maybe by all or each of us); but it is certainly wonderful reading which cuts into the present before the latter disappears." ⎻⎻Frederic Jameson
Table Of ContentPreface I Against Exercise Afternoon of the Sex Children On Food Octomom and the Market in Babies II The Concept of Experience (The Meaning of Life, Part I) III Radiohead, or the Philosophy of Pop Punk: The Right Kind of Pain Learning to Rap IV Gut-Level Legislation, or, Redistribution (The Meaning of Life, Part II) V The Reality of Reality Television WeTube What Was the Hipster? VI Anaesthetic Ideology (The Meaning of Life, Part III) VII Mogadishu, Baghdad, Troy, or Heroes Without War Seeing Through Police VIII Thoreau Trailer Park (The Meaning of Life, Part IV) Acknowledgments
SynopsisA brilliant collection of essays by a young writer who is already a star in the intellectual firmament. As William Deresiewicz has written in Harper's Magazine, " Mark Greif ] is an intellectual, full stop . . . There is much of Lionel] Trilling in Greif . . . Much also of Susan Sontag . . . What he shares with both, and with the line they represent, is precisely a sense of intellect--of thought, of mind--as a conscious actor in the world." 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., A brilliant collection of essays by a young writer who is already a star in the intellectual firmament. As William Deresiewicz has written in Harper's Magazine, "[Mark Greif ] is an intellectual, full stop . . . There is much of [Lionel] Trilling in Greif . . . Much also of Susan Sontag . . . What he shares with both, and with the line they represent, is precisely a sense of intellect--of thought, of mind--as a conscious actor in the world." 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.
LC Classification NumberAC8.5.G74 2016
