{"title":"David Rieff","description":"David Rieff (Author)","products":[{"product_id":"desire-and-fate-paperback","title":"Desire and Fate - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ours is an ill-mannered society that wears those bad manners as a badge not just of its moral rectitude but of its millenarian ethical ambitions. At the same time, in no society in recent memory have people been so easily affronted.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt a time when political writing and cultural criticism have come to be dominated by an insipid and unthinking moralism, David Rieff's essays offer a bracing antidote. As well as being one of the English-speaking world's most perceptive commentators on global politics, Rieff has in recent years been one of its most courageous and outspoken critics of the pathologies of identity politics--in particular, its grossly simplistic understanding of what it means to belong to a culture or a community, its fundamental failure to grasp the real value of the creative arts, and its increasing disregard for due process and freedom of expression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe essays that appear in \u003ci\u003eDesire and Fate\u003c\/i\u003e serve both as a crucial record of and a fierce protest against these developments. Covering topics as diverse as censorship in contemporary publishing, the cultural ubiquity of the notion of trauma, and the future of democracy on a global level, they are all characterised by an incisive intelligence and a refreshing lack of wishful thinking. Together they confirm Rieff's status as an indispensable writer and thinker.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376733061343,"sku":"9781912475384","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/wD7I1K_vhh9781912475384.webp?v=1789221820"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/david-rieff-1.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}