People have long imagined themselves as rooted creatures, bound to the earth--and nations--from which they came. In Rootedness, Christy Wampole looks toward philosophy, ecology, literature, history, and politics to demonstrate how the metaphor of the root--surfacing often in an unexpected variety of places, from the family tree to folk etymology to the language of exile--developed in twentieth-century Europe. Wampole examines both the philosophical implications of this metaphor and its political evolution. From the root as home to the root as genealogical origin to the root as the...
People have long imagined themselves as rooted creatures, bound to the earth--and nations--from which they came. In Rootedness, Christy Wampole...
An original collection of incandescent cultural criticism, both experimental and personal, full of pragmatic advice for how to live a considered, joyful existence in our era of screen living and hipster irony, by a Gen-X Princeton professor and contributor to The New York Times
The essays in The Other Serious examine the signature phenomena of our moment: the way our lives contradict themselves, how exaggeration and excess seep into our collective subconscious, why gender is becoming more rather than less complicated, and how we interact with the material things...
An original collection of incandescent cultural criticism, both experimental and personal, full of pragmatic advice for how to live a considered, j...
