Illustrated Word Smart by Tom Meltzer
Sartwell presents an extreme and provocative philosophy of life. He explores what happens if we love this world precisely as it is, with all of its pain, with all of its evil, with all of its bizarre and arbitrary and monstrous thereness. In a highly personal and brutally direct style, Sartwell explores the themes of transgressive sexuality, political anarchism, addiction, death, and embodiment. The author engages contemporary and historical debates in cultural criticism, metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy, and expresses deep suspicions about them. He asserts that scientific philosophical conceptualization is a movement toward death, a rejection of reality The author engages contemporary and historical debates in cultural criticism, metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy, and expresses deep suspicions about them. He asserts that scientific philosophical conceptualization is a movement toward death, a rejection of reality Moral and political values--the ethical rejection of the particular precisely from within the particular--are, Sartwell claims, an assault on human authenticity. Thus, transgression--which is described as the affirmation of embodiment through obscenity--is something we radically require.
Tom Meltzer graduated from Columbia University with a degree in English. For the past twelve years he has worked at The Princeton Review, teaching and developing courses, writing test material, and authoring or co-authoring seven books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780375751899 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375751890 |
| Title | Illustrated Word Smart |
| Author | Tom Meltzer |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1999-06-22 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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