\u003cdiv\u003e\u0026#147;Mark Kingwell is a beautiful writer, a lucid thinker and a patient teacher ... His insights are intellectual anchors in a fast-changing world.\u0026#8221;\u0026#151;Naomi Klein, author of \u003cI\u003eNo Logo\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003eMeet the \u0026#147;fast zombie\" citizen of the current world. He is a rapid, brainless carrier of preference-driven consumption. His Facebook-style \u0026#145;likes\u0026#8217; 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\u0026#151;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.\u003c/div\u003e
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