Unruly Voices (EPUB) von Mark Kingwell

A new collection by the author ofThe World We Want, with essays on civility, public space, Obama, procrastination, suicide.

Introduction: Empathy and the End ofThe End of Democracy

1. The Shout Doctrine
2. "Fuck You" and Other Salutations: Incivility as Collective Action Problem
3. Masters of Chancery: The Gift of Public Space
4. All Show: Justice and the City
5. The American Gigantic
6. The Tomist: Francis Fukuyama's Infinite Regression
7. Ways of Not Seeing: on Deyan Sudjic'sThe Language of Things
8. The Philosopher President Sets Forth: A Monologue
9. Intellectuals and Democracy
10. What Are Intellectuals For? A Modest Proposal in Dialogue Form
11. The Work Idea: Wage Slavery, Bullshit, and the Good Infinite
12. Throwing Dice: Luck of the Draw and the Democratic Ideal
13. As It Were: On the Metaphysics Ethics of Fiction [n.b.: the word "Metaphysics" appears with a strikethrough]
14. Language Speaks Us: Sophie's Tree and the Paradox of Self
15. The Trick of It: Poetry and the Plane of Immanence
16. Self-Slaughter, Poetry, and the Interfaith Blurb Universe

Postscript: The (In)dividual, Beyond the Uncanny Valley