{"product_id":"unruly-voices-mark-kingwell-9781926845845","title":"Unruly Voices: Essays on Democracy, Civility and the Human Imagination","description":"\"Mark Kingwell is a beautiful writer, a lucid thinker and a patient teacher ... His insights are intellectual anchors in a fast-changing world.\"--Naomi Klein, author of \u003ci\u003eNo Logo\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeet the \"fast zombie citizen of the current world. He is a rapid, brainless carrier of preference-driven consumption. His Facebook-style 'likes' replace complex notions of personhood. Legacy college admissions and status-seekers gobble up his idea of public education, and positional market reductions hollow out his sense of shared goods. Meanwhile, the political debates of his 24-hour-a-day newscycle are picked clean by pundits, tortured by tweets. Forget the TV shows and doomsday scenarios; when it comes to democracy, the zombie apocalypse may already be here. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince the publication of \u003ci\u003eA Civil Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), philosopher Mark Kingwell has been urging us to consider how monstrous, self-serving public behaviour can make it harder to imagine and achieve the society we want. Now, with \u003ci\u003eUnruly Voices\u003c\/i\u003e, Kingwell returns to the subjects of democracy, civility, and political action, in an attempt to revitalize an intellectual culture too-often deadened by its assumptions of personal advantage and economic value. These 17 new essays, where zombies share pages with cultural theorists, poets, and presidents, together argue for a return to the imagination--and from their own unruly voices rises a sympathetic democracy to counter the strangeness of the postmodern political landscape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Kingwell\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of sixteen books and a contributing editor for \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Kingwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1926845846\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781926845845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Biblioasis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/16\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/24\/2012","brand":"Mark Kingwell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937485521151,"sku":"9781926845845","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0ea6d131-ed29-4690-8bb1-b81e221d9af9.jpg?v=1681430351","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unruly-voices-mark-kingwell-9781926845845","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}