Mark Greif: 3 books

A brilliant collection of essays by a young writer who is already a star in the intellectual firmament. As William Deresiewicz has written in Harper’s Magazine, “[Mark Greif ] is an intellectual, full stop . . . There is much of [Lionel] Trilling in Greif . . . Much also of Susan Sontag . . ....

In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif...

Wir dürfen uns Kritik nicht mehr wie in Kants Diktum vom Ausgang aus der selbst verschuldeten Unmündigkeit vorstellen: Erwachsen zu werden reiche nicht, meint Mark Greif, Mitbegründer und Mitherausgeber des amerikanischen Literaturmagazins n+1, in diesem Kursbuchbeitrag.