Killing Cool by Kurt Keefner
Do you live in the real world? Many Americans don't. Cool people, for example, imagine they can ride a mystical next wave to greater glory. Such seemingly innocuous thinking can pose serious threats to self and society. Tragedy ensues when teenagers take up smoking to be cool, presidents try to be cowboys and young men justify their cynical sexual games by invoking misinterpretations of Darwin. In eleven illuminating essays ranging across American culture, Killing Cool explores our troubling tendency to falsify reality and the self. It also offers solutions to the problems it describes, ways of re-connecting with reality and becoming who we really are. In the tradition of Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, Kurt Keefner brings philosophy, psychology and culture criticism to bear on syndromes we normally don't notice but that actually permeate our lives.
Kurt Keefner is a writer and teacher. Originally from Springfield, Illinois, he studied philosophy at the University of Chicago. He has published hundreds of music reviews, book reviews and essays, including Free Will: A Response to Sam Harris, available on Kindle. He lives near Washington, DC, with his wife, author Stephanie Allen. This is his first full-length work.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780692252529 |
| ISBN 10 | 0692252525 |
| Title | Killing Cool |
| Author | Kurt Keefner |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wallkill Trail Books |
| Year published | 2014-10-02 |
| Number of pages | 260 |
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