Investigations Insights Indictments

<p><strong>Cultural Criticism Philosophy</strong></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>The loss of wider purpose in our cosmology is no technical deficit. Though we loathe nostalgia of all kinds and history does not run backwards nevertheless we feel a deeper absence even to the point of the encounter with the 'abyss of meaning.' Gazing into it however we find after all that it cuts both ways; there is an absence of ultimate order and meaning no primer at the outset no summa upon completion but there is almost instead and in its stead a plethora of meanings from which each of us can gather the glinting sheaves of meaningfulness. And if it was doubt that first fulminated against goal against the telos of thought and of life besides we have retrieved the question as our unique manner of understanding this condition both meaningful for us and meaningless for the universe.</em> (From the book's introduction.)</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p>In his fifth book of collected critical essays social philosopher G.V. Loewen the writer with the most breadth and volume of any in his generation asks a series of related questions. Why are we seeing an uptick in internecine social violence? What are the factors involved in decoying us from our authentic selves? How are these politically manipulated? And why are many of us so taken with the idea that selfhood is something to be shunned rather than lived? Yet these most serious contemporary topics are handled with wit verve and a directness of prose that will engage even the most passive of readers. With titles such as 'The Lap Dancing Drag Queen of Oz' 'The Trouble with Tribal' 'Bring me the head of Sergio Garcia' and 'The Ballot and Bullet Ballet' the themes of <em>Investigations Insights Indictments</em> will strike you as both immediate and enduring. - <strong>Avinash Pillay COO of Vigilance Digital Media</strong></p><p><br></p><p> </p>