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In Extremis

By Jake Goldsmith

In Extremis

By Jake Goldsmith

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In these essays, originally written for the quarterly journal Exacting Clam, Jake Goldsmith dissects the foundations of our uneasy present with unflinching honesty and a "physiological urgency to have a say" driven by his experience of chronic life-threatening illness.Ranging from confronting what imperils us-the fragility of liberal democracy, the decline of universities, technological triumphalism, the decay of our common language-to what may sustain us-possibility, creativity, the aphorisms of Baltasar Gracián-to even the dubious pleasures of annoyance and the tendency to judge bookshelves, Goldsmith embraces the skeptical humanisms of Raymond Aron and Montaigne in a clear-eyed if necessarily fraught engagement with the world.These essays search for principle in an age of imposture and, rejecting easy formulas, ask what it might mean to live a considered life when body and body politic both are in a state of perpetual emergency.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
134
Release Date:
2025-09-09
Publication Date:
2025-09-09
Publisher:
Sagging Meniscus Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1963846451
ISBN13:
9781963846454
Weight:
184 g
Height:
148 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
8 cm
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