Kurt Jacobsen's Maverick Voices is a powerful, inspiring tribute to an honorable company of dissenters, whose wisdom and courage are vindicated every day now.
John Pilger Kurt Jacobsen's collection of Maverick Voices brings together fascinating interviews with top writers and thinkers of our time who dare to go against the grain. Full of illuminating insights into politics, the arts, ... Read moreand psychotherapy, Jacobsen's interviews and commentaries should interest all concerned with ideas and culture in the contemporary moment.
Douglas Kellner, UCLA; author of Media Culture and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy Kurt Jacobsen's Maverick Voices is not to be missed by any with an interest in political and cultural challenges to the status quo. . . . [It] brings together a virtual melting pot of interviews with top modern thinkers and writers of our times who dare to confront the status quo of theories on social and political standards.
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Maverick Voices serves both as reprieve to what Studs Terkel calls 'the evil of banality' and a narrative of political and cultural renewal. Jacobsen's interviews emerge as engaging and powerful portraits that sizzle with creative insights into the arts, society, politics, and the human condition. These maverick voices are those that will serve as the enabling conditions for our cultural and political evolution.
Peter McLaren, Honorary Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Critical Studies, Northeast Normal University, China Show Less