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Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. In this issue of
Liberties:
- Michael Ignatieff - The Mind’s Emancipation
- Mary Gaitskill - The Trials of the Young
- Sergei Lebedev - Putin’s Philosopher: A Memoir
- Michael Walzer - Moral Concern
- Justin E. H. Smith – The Happiness Industrial Complex
- Andrew Scull – The Fashions in Trauma
- David A. Bell – The Triumph of Anti-Politics in America
- Michael Kimmage – A Defense of Delight in a Dark Time
- Robert Alter – Proust and the Mystification of the Jews
- Steven B. Smith – What is a Statesman?
- Benjamin Moser – Rembrandt’s shadows
- Helen Vendler – The Poetry of Charm
- Celeste Marcus – Priorism, or the Joshua Katz Affair
- Leon Wieseltier – Problems and Struggles; and
- New poems by Karen Solie, Adam Zagajewski, and John Hodgen
Published quarterly,
Liberties, is a collection of the most significant writers today as well as launching the voices of tomorrow.
Liberties features serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by significant writers and introduces the next generation of writers and poets to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of today’s culture and politics. Nobel Prize winners, leading op-ed writers, well-known non-fiction writers, rising talents, and poets from around the world are part of the
Liberties series.
There’s a reason why engaged citizens, cultural warriors, political leaders, opinion makers, and activists from across the cultural and political spectrum read and cherish
Liberties.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Michael Ignatieff’s most recent book is
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times.
Mary Gaitskill is the author, among other books, of
Bad Behavior and
This Is Pleasure.
Sergei Lebedev is a Russian novelist and the author of
Oblivion and
Untraceable. This essay was translated by
Antonina W. Bouis.
Karen Solie is a Canadian poet whose most recent book is
The Caiplie Caves.
Michael Walzer is professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His new book
The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On “Liberal” as an Adjective will be published in January.
David A. Bell is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University.
Justin E. H. Smith is a professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris.
Michael Kimmage is a professor of history at the Catholic University of America and the author most recently of
The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy.
Adam Zagajewski, who died in 2021, was an acclaimed Polish poet. The poems in this issue were translated by
Clare Cavanagh.
Andrew Scull is a professor of sociology at the University of California at San Diego, and the author of
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness.
Robert Alter is professor emeritus of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at University of California at Berkeley.
Steven B. Smith is a professor of political science at Yale University and the author most recently of
Modernity and its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow.
Benjamin Moser is a writer and translator, and the author most recently of
Sontag: Her Life and Work.
Helen Vendler is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor emerita at Harvard University. Leon Wieseltier is the editor of Liberties.Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties.
Zusammenfassung
Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time.
