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Measure Yourself Against the Earth: Essays

Measure Yourself Against the Earth: Essays

Kingwell, Mark

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ISBN10: 1771960469
ISBN13: 9781771960465
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: Nov 17 2015
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

Mark Kingwell is as at home discussing Battlestar Galactica as he is civility, can find the Plato in popular culture, and sees in idleness a deeply revolutionary gesture. In Measure Yourself Against the Earth, he brings his heady mixture of critical intelligence and infectious enthusiasm to bear on film, aesthetics, politics, leisure, literature and much more, showing us how each can help us to imagine and achieve the society we want. The concept of the gift unites many of these essays: it is in this idea, Kingwell argues persuasively, in which we may be able to refashion the real world of democracy. An activist, fugitive democracy. A living democracy that is no opaque demand but a real thing--a society. Democracy: the gift we keep on giving each other.

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