{"product_id":"against-everything-essays-1","title":"Against Everything: Essays","description":"Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\n\nThe essays in Against Everything are learned, original, highly entertaining, and, from start to finish, dead serious, reinventing and reinvigorating what intellectuals can be and say and do. Key topics are the tyranny of exercise, the folly of food snobbery, the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), the philosophical meaning of pop music, the rise and fall of the hipster, the uses of reality TV, the impact of protest movements, and the crisis of policing. Four of the selections address, directly and unironically, the meaning of life—how to find a philosophical stance to adopt toward one’s self and the world. Mark Greif manages to revivify the thought and spirit of the greatest of American dissenters, Henry David Thoreau, for our time and historical situation.\n\nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:\nThe Guardian • The Atlantic • New York Magazine • San Francisco Chronicle • Paris Review • National Post (Canada)\n\nLonglisted for the 2017 PEN Diamonson-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1101971746\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1101971746.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Greif, Mark\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41537900871738,"sku":"DBV.1101971746.G","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1101971746-0_84954bea-5ba2-4201-9ebe-fa8a37a0d210.jpg?v=1784348237","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/against-everything-essays-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}