Desire and Fate

Brilliant and unsparing essays on the blind spots and maladies of contemporary culture.

About the author

David Rieff is one of the United States’s leading authorities on global affairs. Renowned for his reporting from conflict zones and on the work of international humanitarian organisations, his writings have shaped public debate on subjects ranging from liberal interventionism to the use and abuse of historical memory. He is also a widely published commentator on contemporary American culture and the author of an acclaimed volume of memoirs. His many books include At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention, Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir, The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century, and In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies.

Summary

Brilliant and unsparing essays on the blind spots and maladies of contemporary culture.

Product details

• Authors: David Rieff, Rieff David
• Assisted by: John Banville (Foreword)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.04.2025
• EAN: 9781912475384
• ISBN: 978-1-912475-38-4
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, social and political philosophy, Language: reference & general, Literary essays, essays; social theory