 From flickr.com/photos/35166455@N00/3643710412/: Magnera Human Skull 2: Magnera Human Skull 2 (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Anthony Domestico reviews Mark Greif's new book, "The Age of the Crisis of Man", which traces how American literary culture became entranced with antihumanism. Greif focuses on writers like Saul Bellow, Flannery O'Connor, and Thomas Pynchon to see how they thought about whether or not there was such a thing as "essential man." "Greif sees the passing away of abstract man as a positive development. His careful attention to the flaws at the core of this universalizing project prove to him the flaws at the core of alluniversalizing projects: 'Anytime your inquiries lead you to say, 'At this moment we must ask and decide who we fundamentally are...' just stop. You have begun asking the wrong analytic questions for your moment.' For 'your moment' only, or from now on? Greif does not quite say, but his book strongly suggests that we've outgrown the old humanistic anxiety about universals |
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