Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume III, Issue 2: 3 - Softcover

Ignatieff, Michael; Gaitskill, Mary; Lebedev, Sergei; Bouis, Antonia; Solie, Karen; Walzer, Michael; Bell, David A.; Smith, Justin E.H.; Kimmage, Michael C.; Scull, Andrew; Alter, Robert; Smith, Steven B.; Moser, Benjamin; Vendler, Helen; Hodgen, John; Zagajewski, Adam

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ISBN 10: 1735718793 ISBN 13: 9781735718798

Verlag: Liberties Journal Foundation, 2023

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Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. 
In this issue of Liberties: Michael Ignatieff - The Mind’s Emancipation; Mary Gaitskill - The Trials of the Young; Sergei Lebedev - Putin’s Philosopher: A Memoir; Michael Walzer - Moral Concern; Justin E. H. Smith – The Happiness Industrial Complex; Andrew Scull – The Fashions in Trauma; David A. Bell – The Triumph of Anti-Politics in America; Michael Kimmage – A Defense of Delight in a Dark Time; Robert Alter – Proust and the Mystification of the Jews; Steven B. Smith – What is a Statesman?; Benjamin Moser – Rembrandt’s shadows; Helen Vendler – The Poetry of Charm; Celeste Marcus – Priorism, or the Joshua Katz Affair; Leon Wieseltier – Problems and Struggles; and, new poems by Karen Solie, Adam Zagajewski, and John Hodgen.
Published quarterly, Liberties, is a collection of the most significant writers today as well as launching the voices of tomorrow.
Liberties features serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by significant writers and introduces the next generation of writers and poets to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of today’s culture and politics. Nobel Prize winners, leading op-ed writers, well-known non-fiction writers, rising talents, and poets from around the world are part of the Liberties series.

There’s a reason why engaged citizens, cultural warriors, political leaders, opinion makers, and activists from across the cultural and political spectrum read and cherish Liberties.

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Michael Ignatieff’s most recent book is On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times.Mary Gaitskill is the author, among other books, of Bad Behavior and This Is Pleasure.Sergei Lebedev is a Russian novelist and the author of Oblivion and Untraceable. This essay was translated by Antonina W. Bouis.Karen Solie is a Canadian poet whose most recent book is The Caiplie Caves.Michael Walzer is professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His new book The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On “Liberal” as an Adjective will be published in January.David A. Bell is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University. Justin E. H. Smith is a professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris.Michael Kimmage is a professor of history at the Catholic University of America and the author most recently of The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy. Adam Zagajewski, who died in 2021, was an acclaimed Polish poet. The poems in this issue were translated by Clare Cavanagh. Andrew Scull is a professor of sociology at the University of California at San Diego, and the author of Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness.Robert Alter is professor emeritus of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at University of California at Berkeley.Steven B. Smith is a professor of political science at Yale University and the author most recently of Modernity and its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow. Benjamin Moser is a writer and translator, and the author most recently of Sontag: Her Life and Work.Helen Vendler is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor emerita at Harvard University. Leon Wieseltier is the editor of Liberties.Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Liberties Journal Foundation
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1735718793
• ISBN 13: 9781735718798
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 318
• Herausgeber: Wieseltier Leon, Marcus Celeste
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