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Against Everything: Essays

Mark Greif

"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." -- Amazon.com.

Society & CultureSociety & Culture · medium confidenceSociety & Culture81 signalsLlm Classifier: Society & Culture -> Society & CultureKeyword Classifier: Arts & Criticism -> Arts & CriticismTopic Classifier: Literature & Writers -> Arts & CriticismLiterature & WritersIntellectual History & IdeasArt, Music & PerformanceMedia, Journalism & Public Opinion

Award History

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AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismMajor2016FinalistSecondary source
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