{"product_id":"in-extremis-9781963846454","title":"In Extremis","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jake Goldsmith\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Sagging Meniscus Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Sagging Meniscus Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these essays, originally written for the quarterly journal Exacting Clam, Jake Goldsmith dissects the foundations of our uneasy present with unflinching honesty and a \"physiological urgency to have a say\" driven by his experience of chronic life-threatening illness.\u003c\/p\u003eRanging from confronting what imperils us-the fragility of liberal democracy, the decline of universities, technological triumphalism, the decay of our common language-to what may sustain us-possibility, creativity, the aphorisms of Baltasar Graci�n-to even the dubious pleasures of annoyance and the tendency to judge bookshelves, Goldsmith embraces the skeptical humanisms of Raymond Aron and Montaigne in a clear-eyed if necessarily fraught engagement with the world.These essays search for principle in an age of imposture and, rejecting easy formulas, ask what it might mean to live a considered life when body and body politic both are in a state of perpetual emergency.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46391744331927,"sku":"9781963846454","price":1572.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781963846454.webp?v=1768807362","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/in-extremis-9781963846454","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}