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The Opening of the American Mind
In a cultural landscape dominated by hot takes and petty polemics, The Point stands for something different. Informed by the conviction that humanistic thinking has relevance for everyday life, the magazine has long maintained a rare space for thoughtful dialogue between a wide range of political views, philosophical perspectives, and personal experiences: its contributors include liberals and conservatives, philosophers and activists, Marxists and Catholics, New Yorkers and Midwesterners. A little more than a decade since its founding on the campus of the University of Chicago, it offers a unique and revelatory look at the changing face of America, one that speaks not only to way American m...
Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume 1, Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate Like Mammals
This book is designed as a source and reference for people interested in the history and fossil record of North American tertiary mammals. Each chapter covers a different family or order, and includes information on anatomical features, systematics, the distribution of the genera and species at different fossil localities, and a discussion of their paleobiology. Many of these groups have never been covered in this fashion before.
Detail Man
There’s a Pill For That. Join Stu Roy in a hilarious and eye-opening thirty-year expedition through the ever-evolving world of pharmaceutical sales at Plushaut Uclaf. From his first week, where he meets the wildly unpredictable Dr. Addicus, to navigating the eccentricities of colleagues like the relentless Bill Dooley, Stu quickly learns that the medical world is teeming with characters just as flawed and fascinating as any. Stu's journey is a rollercoaster of laughter, lessons, and medical marvels. With a steadfast promise to quit when the job stops being fun, he tackles a whirlwind of professional challenges. From dealing with hard-partying salesmen and cutthroat competition to the incre...
Fictions of Proximity
Fictions of Proximity: Skepticism, Romanticism, and the Wallace Nexus tells the story of a nexus of contemporary novelists around David Foster Wallace who took up the legacy of logical positivism and reworked it between the 1980s and the 2000s in a way that has affinities with romanticism. The book shows how the writers of this 'Wallace nexus' use fiction's complexities to challenge the idea that in human interactions, only complete fusion and transparency may count as instances of knowing. In place of this positivistic ideal of absorption, the book offers the freshly defined concept of 'proximity,' a closeness with separateness. It reads key novels of contemporary Anglo-American literature ...
Geometries of Empathy
What does it mean to empathize today? Virginia Woolf was convinced, 'that the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved', first and foremost, to 'express character.' But to what extent can the novel capture the 'unlimited capacity and infinite variety' of other minds and lives? By revealing the origins of the term 'empathy' in modernist aesthetics, Ágota Márton offers a radical new perspective on the contemporary novel. Translated into English in 1908 from the German Einfühlung, empathy did not initially mean sharing or understanding the feelings of another human. It described imaginative projection into a work of art or an object...
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Seculosity
At the heart of our current moment lies a universal yearning, writes David Zahl, not to be happy or respected so much as enough--what religions call "righteous." To fill the void left by religion, we look to all sorts of everyday activities--from eating and parenting to dating and voting--for the identity, purpose, and meaning once provided on Sunday morning. In our striving, we are chasing a sense of enoughness. But it remains ever out of reach, and the effort and anxiety are burning us out. Seculosity takes a thoughtful yet entertaining tour of American "performancism" and its cousins, highlighting both their ingenuity and mercilessness, all while challenging the conventional narrative of religious decline. Zahl unmasks the competing pieties around which so much of our lives revolve, and he does so in a way that's at points playful, personal, and incisive. Ultimately he brings us to a fresh appreciation for the grace of God in all its countercultural wonder.
