{"product_id":"in-extremis-jake-goldsmith-9781963846454","title":"In Extremis","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jake Goldsmith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1963846451\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781963846454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sagging Meniscus Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.31d","brand":"Jake Goldsmith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47305746448639,"sku":"9781963846454","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ab7f40ee-9424-4cfa-821c-a3181e4e642b.jpg?v=1758831678","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-extremis-jake-goldsmith-9781963846454","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}