Culture as Counterculture: Essays on Literature and Ideas($29.99Value)

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In Culture as Counterculture , leading literary critic and intellectual Adam Kirsch explores the question of how 21st-century religion, art, and science engage with the past, and are both re-enlivened and redefined by it. "Like all of Adam Kirsch's work, Culture as Counterculture is elegant, humane, judicious, and learned. The last, long essay, a meditation on meaning in the modern world, is worth the cover price alone. In a world of takes and toks, Kirsch is that precious thing, a true person of letters." -- William Deresiewicz, author of The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society "Adam Kirsch carries forward the light of civilized and civilizing cultural commentary. The book is genial, clear-minded, fresh, and edifying." -- Mark Edmundson, Presidential University Professor, University of Virginia "Like all of Adam Kirsch's work, Culture as Counterculture is elegant, humane, judicious, and learned. The last, long essay, a meditation on meaning in the modern world, is worth the cover price alone. In a world of takes and toks, Kirsch is that precious thing, a true person of letters." -- William Deresiewicz, author of The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society "Adam Kirsch carries forward the light of civilized and civilizing cultural commentary. The book is genial, clear-minded, fresh, and edifying." -- Mark Edmundson, Presidential University Professor, University of Virginia Adam Kirsch is a poet and critic whose writing appears regularly in The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and other publications. He is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and an editor at the Wall Street Journal's weekend Review section. Adam Kirsch is a poet and critic whose writing appears regularly in The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and other publications. He is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and an editor at the Wall Street Journal's weekend Review section.