The Point: Issue 8 - BASKIN,JTHAKKAR,J

The Point is a twice-yearly journal of essays on contemporary life and culture. A mix of criticism memoir and reviews The Point goes beyond intellectual tourism by challenging its readers to recognize the impact of ideas on their everyday life. Early issues have considered whether it is possible to live an honorable social life on Facebook what Thorstein Veblen would say about Goldman Sachs and why today's conservatives ought to read Marx. Each issue also contains a symposium consisting of several shorter pieces relating to a topic chosen by the editors. Issue 8 of The Point will feature essays on Rousseau and the ethics of eating the enchanted architecture of graphic novels and how television can get you through graduate school. Also a first-person account of EU bureaucracy in action in Estonia and reviews of Norman Rush Charlie Trotter and the new scholarship on slavery. The symposium for issue 8 asks: What is Science for? Responses explore the politics of climate change the relationship between science and religion and the fate of wonder under conditions of contemporary skepticism. Also: why does someone become a scientist today? Robert Bolger Lorraine Daston Alice Gregory and Michael Gordin will be among the contributors.

TITLE: The Point: Issue 8

AUTHOR: BASKIN,JTHAKKAR,J

SKU: 9780983913283

PUBLISHER: The Point

DATE PUBLISHED: 22/05/2014

PLACE PUBLISHED: United States

PAGES: 200

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 178 mm x 254 mm

WEIGHT: 371 gr