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Books

The Revolt Against Humanity by Adam Kirsch

Ian James Kidd responds to rejections of humanity.

Adam Kirsch is an American poet, biographer, literary critic, a faculty member at Columbia University, and a widely-published public intellectual. The Revolt Against Humanity (2022) appears in the Columbia Global Reports series of well-produced, novella-length essays on contemporary political and cultural themes. The theme of this book is the dispiriting judgement that “the end of humanity’s reign is imminent, and that we should welcome it” (p.10). Humanity’s beset by the climate crisis, ecological destruction, the possibility of nuclear war, and other existential risks that in the worst-case scenarios threaten our species’ existence.

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