{"product_id":"only-a-voice-essays-9781804292006","title":"Only a Voice: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): George Scialabba\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Verso\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Verso\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Books \u0026amp; Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssays on politics, power, and culture from one of America's most eminent critics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOnly a Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity's promise of progress and the sobering reality of our present day through studies of the most influential public intellectuals of our time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Scialabba's hands, literary criticism becomes a powerful tool for expressing political passion and demonstrating the generative power of argument and an inquisitive mind. Drawing together a diverse group of thinkers, artists, activists, and philosophers-including Edward Said, D. H. Lawrence, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ellen Willis, and Noam Chomsky-Scialabba tours western intellectual history to find that no matter the stakes, critical thought remains a necessary precondition for politics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery writer, Scialabba writes, faces the choice of whether \"to tilt at the state and capital or ignore them\" - and the world now is too dire not to choose the former.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45035758354583,"sku":"9781804292006","price":2130.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781804292006.webp?v=1769212245","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/only-a-voice-essays-9781804292006","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}