Points of Attack - Couverture souple

De Silva, Mark

 
9781944866761: Points of Attack

Synopsis

In this collage of critical reflections, written in the tradition of the short essay running through Francis Bacon and Roland Barthes, the novelist, philosopher, and former New York Times Opinion staffer Mark de Silva looks into matters of both common curiosity and special concern in America today: technological evolution, virtuality, terrorism, the future of the self, the individual's place in a globalized society, the species' place in the natural world, the state of the arts, and the animadversions of the sciences.

Above all, Points of Attack is a handbook of the ways of the good life in bad times, and an inoculation against presumption in an era when the axioms of liberal democratic life have come undone and the end of history once again appears a long way off.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mark de Silva is the author of the novel Square Wave and the fiction editor of 3: AM Magazine. He holds degrees in philosophy from Brown (AB) and Cambridge (PhD).

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