The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia by Scialabba, George
The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia by Scialabba, George

The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia

An award-winning author argues for the necessity of cultural critics and intellectuals to American democracy This incisive...
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Author: George Scialabba
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia by Scialabba, George

The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia

$97.99 $51.32
The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia by Scialabba, George

The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia

$97.99 $51.32
Author: George Scialabba
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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An award-winning author argues for the necessity of cultural critics and intellectuals to American democracy

This incisive collection of essays investigates the moral imagination of modernism and our intellectual and political inheritance. George Scialabba offers a series of portraits of, and arguments with, American and European thinkers of the past hundred years, ranging from conservatives such as John Gray, William Buckley, and Jonathan Haidt to radicals such as Dwight Macdonald, Christopher Hitchens, and Bill McKibben.

In our moment of democracy under siege, with intellectual work popularly derided as only for "elites," Scialabba champions such thinkers as Richard Rorty, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Christopher Lasch, with their emphasis on democratic political culture and their faith in the capacities of ordinary people and the importance of intellectual work. This collection passes on these values "in a sealed envelope," as Rilke says of love between selfish lovers, for future generations to use in crafting their own "intelligent utopia."



Author: George Scialabba
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 01/20/2026
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780300282399

About the Author
George Scialabba is an award-winning critic and essayist. He is the author of the memoir How To Be Depressed and the essay collection Only a Voice. He lives in Cambridge, MA.
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