George Scialabba

explains

The Modern Predicament

with an introduction from JAMES WOOD

Date

Oct
3
Monday
October 3, 2011
7:00 PM ET

Location

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

This event is free; no tickets are required.

Harvard Book Store is very pleased to welcome back local author and critic GEORGE SCIALABBA for a discussion about his new collection of essays, The Modern Predicament. He will be introduced by fellow essayist and critic JAMES WOOD.

Following his acclaimed What Are Intellectuals Good For?, George Scialabba continues to delve into the humanities to find insight into the modern world. In essays ranging across philosophy (Kierkegaard, Nietzsche), literature (D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot), history (Michael Foucault, Christopher Lasch), and politics (Michael Harrington), Scialabba poses a number of searching questions, continually returning to one: Is moral progress possible, and at what price? In her introduction Barbara Ehrenreich writes, "As long as we exist as a species, we'll be debating what constitutes morality and virtue, and we could hardly have a better guide than George Scialabba."

George Scialabba
George Scialabba

George Scialabba

George Scialabba has published five books with Pressed Wafer: Slouching Toward Utopia (2018), What Are Intellectuals Good For? (2009), The Modern Predicament (2011), For the Republic (2013), and Low Dishonest Decades (2016).

James Wood
James Wood

James Wood

James Wood is a staff writer at The New Yorker and Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University. He is the author of How Fiction Works, as well as the essay collections, Serious Noticing, The Broken Estate and The Irresponsible Self, and the novels, The Book Against God and Upstate.

Harvard Book Store
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