{"product_id":"the-great-dismissal-9781501392290","title":"The Great Dismissal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVeteran scholar and critic Henry Sussman deploys anecdote, reportage, and memoir to lament and scrutinize the rise of anti-intellectualism in the past few decades. How are we to reckon with the decline of impartiality and sharp increase in self-interested interference in politic, legal, and cultural spheres; the normalization of pathological narcissism in public life; and the blanket dismissal of scientific findings and their counterparts in the humanities and social sciences?In retracing his own intellectual and experiential steps, Sussman revisits many of his lasting inspirations, including Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Immanuel Kant, and J. Hillis Miller. The result is an intellectual meditation on the great dismissal,' in public and political life, of venerable and vital humanistic traditions, ethics, and ways of thinking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book establishes a new critical standard for memoir. \u003ci\u003eThe Great Dismissal\u003c\/i\u003e demolishes efforts to expunge controversial books from our society simply because they induce people to think. Through an improvised mash-up of original poetry, trenchant cultural analysis, and touching memoir, Sussman's amazing book is an electroshock to the deadened brain of America. This kaleidoscopic survey of life during the Trump-COVID years from one of Derrida's most celebrated students is an extremely important and highly original work of social and political criticism. A must read for anyone who wants to make \u003ci\u003ethinking\u003c\/i\u003e great again! * Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Professor of English and Philosophy, University of Houston, Victoria, USA, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Great Dismissal\u003c\/i\u003e, Henry Sussman crafts an extraordinary voice meticulously registering the existential vagaries of life in New York City during the twin plagues of COVID and Trump. This intimately personal, nonlinear chronicle foregrounds contemporary journalism that challenges the mendacity, hypocrisy, and subterfuge of American political culture. \u003ci\u003eThe Great Dismissal\u003c\/i\u003e is a sustained meditation on intellectual redemptions that refuse to be dismissed by the Pharisees of disinformation. * Bruce Clarke, Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Literature and Science, Texas Tech University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eNo one today writes – or thinks – quite like Henry Sussman. A rhizomatic memoir of the Trump era, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Dismissal\u003c\/i\u003e reads as a critique of the present penned simultaneously from the future and past. Pulling from Piketty and Poe and conversations in the street with equal attentiveness, Sussman offers a vibrant, searing, subjective answer to the still critical questions: What is to be done, and Who is to blame? The passion of the prose itself models an alternative – an irrational but inexhaustible, perennial hope – to the post-apocalyptic global present he so skillfully scalpels apart. * Marijeta Bozovic, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.  November 18, 2020. \u003ci\u003ePostal\u003c\/i\u003e.            2.  October 6\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e2020. \u003ci\u003eApocalypse red, apocalypse blue\u003c\/i\u003e.            3.  December 12, 2020. \u003ci\u003eConfederacy of zombies\u003c\/i\u003e.            4.  October 18, 2019. \u003ci\u003eProtests, curtailment of bus service, Queens. \u003c\/i\u003e           5.  June 7, 2020. \u003ci\u003eAtlas of vanished places.\u003c\/i\u003e            6.  February 10, 2021. \u003ci\u003eRequiem to disinterest\u003c\/i\u003e.            7.  January 27, 2020\u003ci\u003e. New feudal lords. \u003c\/i\u003e           8.  Thanksgiving, 2021. \u003ci\u003ePartisans of writing: Mayer with Derrida\u003c\/i\u003e            9.  April 1, 2018\u003ci\u003e. Welcome to the Great Dismissal! \u003c\/i\u003e                 10. August 15, 2020. \u003ci\u003eCo-lateral dommages\u003c\/i\u003e.            11. December, 31, 2020. \u003ci\u003eWhat on earth to do with the bodies? \u003c\/i\u003e           12. August 30, 2018. \u003ci\u003eMidterm enigmas for progressives\u003c\/i\u003e.          13. December 15, 2021\u003ci\u003e. Partisans of writing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e Tobin Smith. \u003c\/i\u003e           14. January 19, 2021. \u003ci\u003ePolitics of entertainment  \u003c\/i\u003e          15. May 24, 2020\u003ci\u003e. Sikhs and other cabbies\u003c\/i\u003e.           16. November 15, 2020\u003ci\u003e. Electronic ticks and leaden bubbles.\u003c\/i\u003e            17. June 13, 2019. \u003ci\u003eThree deer in a development near Harrisburg, PA\u003c\/i\u003e.            18. Labor Day, 2021.\u003ci\u003e Partisans of writing. Shoshanah Zuboff. \u003c\/i\u003e                    19. March 15, 2022. \u003ci\u003ePartisans of writing. Adam Serwer.\u003c\/i\u003e               20. February 14, 2022. \u003ci\u003eUniversity of the street.  \u003c\/i\u003e           21. May 15, 2022. \u003ci\u003eThis Thing that dwells within us. \u003c\/i\u003e           22. June 27, 2022. \u003ci\u003eDismissal day: The strange loop of identity politics\u003c\/i\u003e.            23. January 23, 2023. \u003ci\u003eI was there.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040886456663,"sku":"9781501392290","price":57.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501392290.jpg?v=1750948178","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-great-dismissal-9781501392290","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}