A brilliant collection of essays by a young writer who is already a star in the intellectual firmament. As William Deresiewicz has written in Harper’s Magazine, “[Mark Greif ] is an intellectual, full stop . . . There is much of [Lionel] Trilling in Greif . . . Much also of Susan Sontag . . . What he shares with both, and with the line they represent, is precisely a sense of intellect—of thought, of mind—as a conscious actor in the world.”Over the past eleven years, Greif ...

Against Everything is a thought-provoking study and essential guide to the vicissitudes of everyday life under twenty-first-century capitalism.Mark Greif is one of the most exciting writers of his generation. In this invigorating collection, he challenges us to rethink the ordinary world and take life seriously - in short, to stay honest in dishonest times. In a series of coruscating set pieces he asks why we put ourselves through the pains of exercise, what our concerns a...

Wir dürfen uns Kritik nicht mehr wie in Kants Diktum vom Ausgang aus der selbst verschuldeten Unmündigkeit vorstellen: Erwachsen zu werden reiche nicht, meint Mark Greif, Mitbegründer und Mitherausgeber des amerikanischen Literaturmagazins n+1, in diesem Kursbuchbeitrag.

A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury AmericaIn a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. In this ambitious intellectual and literary history, Greif recovers th...

Un ejercicio de disenso radical que reúne ensayos sobre temas tan variados como el cuerpo, la experiencia, la redistribución de la renta o YouTube.Mark Greif, siguiendo la tradición de grandes intelectuales americanos como Lionel Trilling o Susan Sontag, se plantea en este libro un ejercicio de disensión «contra todo» lo que damos por supuesto: ¿por qué hacemos ciertas cosas y no otras? ¿De verdad creemos en lo que hacemos, o solo seguimos un patrón aprendido en el...

In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-hand accounts of the early days and weeks of Occupy Wall Street with contentious debates and thoughtful reflections, featuring the editors and writers of the celebrated n+1, as well as some of the world's leading radical thinkers, such as S...