{"product_id":"9781926845852","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151384002800,"sku":"9781926845852","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781926845852_p0.jpg?v=1763635716","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781926845852","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}