Passionate and rollicking personal and intellectual essays by philosopher Crispin Sartwell.
Philosopher, music critic, and syndicated columnist Crispin Sartwell has forged a distinctive and fiercely original identity over the years as a cultural commentator. In books about anarchism, art and politics, Native American and African American thought and culture, Eastern spirituality, and American transcendentalism, Sartwell has relentlessly insisted on an ethos rooted in unadorned honesty with oneself and a healthy skepticism of others. This volume of selected popular writings combines music and art criticism with personal memoir about addiction and rebellion, as well as cultural commentary on race, sexuality, cynicism, and the meaning of life.
Crispin Sartwell is Associate Professor of Art, Political Science, and Philosophy at Dickinson College. He is the author of several books, including Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory, Extreme Virtue: Truth and Leadership in Five Great American Lives, and End of Story: Toward an Annihilation of Language and History, all published by SUNY Press.
