The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia - Couverture rigide

Scialabba, George

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300282397 ISBN 13 : 9780300282399

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2026

Synopsis

An award-winning author argues for the necessity of cultural critics and intellectuals to American democracy

This incisive collection of essays investigates the moral imagination of modernism and our intellectual and political inheritance. George Scialabba offers a series of portraits of, and arguments with, American and European thinkers of the past hundred years, ranging from conservatives such as John Gray, William Buckley, and Jonathan Haidt to radicals such as Dwight Macdonald, Christopher Hitchens, and Bill McKibben.

In our moment of democracy under siege, with intellectual work popularly derided as only for "elites," Scialabba champions such thinkers as Richard Rorty, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Christopher Lasch, with their emphasis on democratic political culture and their faith in the capacities of ordinary people and the importance of intellectual work. This collection passes on these values "in a sealed envelope," as Rilke says of love between selfish lovers, for future generations to use in crafting their own "intelligent utopia."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

George Scialabba is an award-winning critic and essayist. He is the author of the memoir How To Be Depressed and the essay collection Only a Voice. He lives in Cambridge, MA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300282397
• ISBN 13: 9780300282399
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 296
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