Mark Kingwell: 11 books

“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 No LogoMeet the “fast zombie" citizen of the current world. He is a rapid, brainless carrier of preference-driven consumption. His...

Glenn Gould, one of the world’s most renowned classical musicians of the twentieth century, was also known as an eccentric genius—solitary, headstrong, a hypochondriac virtuoso. Abandoning stage performances in 1964, Gould concentrated instead on mastering the various media: recordings, radio,...

Mark Kingwell is as at home discussing Battlestar Galactica as he is civility, can find the Plato in popular culture, and sees in idleness a deeply revolutionary gesture. In Measure Yourself Against the Earth, he brings his heady mixture of critical intelligence and infectious enthusiasm to bear on...

This vibrant blend of memoir, travelogue, and reflection on the deep truths of angling is framed around an annual fishing trip that Mark Kingwell and his father and two brothers take each year to British Columbia. Between the drinking, the cigars, and the piloting of a small dingy, Kingwell, previously...

Fail Better uses the sport of baseball as the entry point for a philosophical examination of the beneficial lessons that failure can offer humanity. Unlike many philosophers, Kingwell's style is open and readily understandable. He has a gift for explaining difficult concepts in a way that any...

Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that never arrives? If so, this book is the philosophical lifeline you...

Tous les pêcheurs sont philosophes, mais qu’arrive-t-il lorsqu’un philosophe – un professeur de philosophie, rien de moins – devient pêcheur ? Mêlant souvenirs d’enfance, récit de voyage et réflexions personnelles sur le sens de la vie, Mark Kingwell offre un livre dont l’approche...

"Dawdler." "Layabout." "Shit-heel." "Loser." For as long as mankind has had to work for a living, which is to say ever since the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, people who work have disparaged those who prefer not to. Mark Kingwell's introductory...

In Concrete Reveries, acclaimed philosopher and cultural critic Mark Kingwell offers a thoughtful answer to Socrates’ injunction about the life worth living, using the urban experience to illustrate the dynamic between concreteness and abstraction that operates within us.Witty and authoritative, the book is an exhilarating journey through unexpected terrain.

This book is about a widely shared desire: the desire among citizens for a vibrant and effective social discourse of legitimation. It therefore begins with the conviction that what political philosophy can provide citizens is not further theories of the good life but instead directions for talking...

Considéré dans ce texte: Le 9/11 Memorial Plaza. Le poids de la commémoration. L’architecte Michael Arad. Les lacunes de toute création de groupe. L’art public. Les touristes qui se prennent en photo devant des monuments. L’ironie en démocratie. L’absence.