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Author: Mark Kingwell

Mark Kingwell is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto whose most recent book is Question Authority: A Polemic About Trust in Five Meditations (Biblioasis).

Quirk Your Enthusiasm (1)

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Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love” — New Age blues, and bliss.

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Grok My Enthusiasm (9)

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NORTH STAR SNEAKERS & GWG JEANS. Canadian coolness.

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Hermenautic Tarot (7)

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Mark Kingwell on THE WARY WATCHERS

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Lewis Mumford

By: Mark Kingwell

He predicted “megatechnics” vs. “biolivability.”

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Henri Bergson

By: Mark Kingwell

Intuition, creativity, laughter, and élan vital.

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Paulo Freire

By: Mark Kingwell

Education as social and economic emancipation.

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Hank Williams

By: Mark Kingwell

So talented, charismatic, and self-destructive!

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Crom Your Enthusiasm (3)

By: Mark Kingwell

Mark Kingwell on OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET

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Herbert Marcuse

By: Mark Kingwell

Consumer society robs us of political agency.

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Berenice Abbott

By: Mark Kingwell

Her startling vision has become the American vernacular.

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Henry David Thoreau

By: Mark Kingwell

He made the choice to live deliberately.

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Charlie Chaplin

By: Mark Kingwell

Auteur of the unforgettable fork-dance of dinner rolls.

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György Lukács

By: Mark Kingwell

A beautifully conflicted Marxist intellectual.

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Paul Fussell

By: Mark Kingwell

He could write to amuse… or irritate.

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Murray Bookchin

By: Mark Kingwell

Challenging power and preserving the environment.

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