Gibson offers readers an enriching, insightful discussion of topic to which few have dedicated such energy. In the end, he does not offer his own conclusion but fittingly leaves it up to readers.
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Gibson's new book is astonishing. Misanthropy - as mood, as logic - yields brilliant readings of the cultural and historical circumstances in which a ... Read morespecific attitude or misanthropic moment changes and turns the order of things. The book offers, with a magisterial command of a remarkable range of literary and cultural history, a brilliant engagement with the literary modulations of modernity. It is among the most original books I have read.
Thomas Docherty, Professor of English and of Comparative Literature University of Warwick, UK Misanthropy is elegant, irresistibly humorous, and genuinely informative, on a subject which has a most fascinating history and, as Gibson shows, is also pressingly relevant for the here and now. Accessibly written and eminently readable Gibson's is a mature critical voice, learned, intelligent and lucid, provoking and enlightening the reader at every turn.
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