A Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayOne of TIME magazine\'s Best Nonfiction Books of the YearThe spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency.
In The Givenness of Thing.
But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable, there is still much to give us hope.
As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield material well-being.
A Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayOne of TIME magazine\'s Best Nonfiction Books of the YearThe spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency