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I Wear the Black Hat : Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)

by Chuck Klosterman
RM42.60 MYR Now RM29.79 MYR Save 30% more
I Wear the Black Hat : Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined) - Thryft
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Exploring our love affair with anti-heroes.

I would recommend this book to those interested in analyzing modern culture's understanding and fascination with villainy. Klosterman's humorous tone and thought-provoking hypotheticals make for an accessible yet perceptive read. Readers will come away with a deeper understanding of the complexity of antiheroes and the contradictory ways we perceive them in American culture.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2013)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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I Wear the Black Hat : Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)

by Chuck Klosterman
RM42.60 MYR Now RM29.79 MYR Save 30% more
ISBN: 9781439184509
Authors: Chuck Klosterman
Publisher: Scribner
Date of Publication: 2014-07-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Creative Nonfiction, Sociology, Philosophy, History
Related Topics: Essays, History, History
Goodreads rating: 3.7
(rated by 11959 readers)

Description

One-of-a-kind cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman “offers up great facts, interesting cultural insights, and thought-provoking moral calculations in this look at our love affair with the anti-hero” (New York magazine).Chuck Klosterman, “The Ethicist” for The New York Times Magazine, has walked into the darkness. In I Wear the Black Hat, he questions the modern understanding of villainy. When we classify someone as a bad person, what are we really saying, and why are we so obsessed with saying it? How does the culture of malevolence operate? What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why don’t we see Bernhard Goetz the same way we see Batman? Who is more worthy of our vitriol—Bill Clinton or Don Henley? What was O.J. Simpson’s second-worst decision? And why is Klosterman still haunted by some kid he knew for one week in 1985?Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and imaginative hypotheticals, I Wear the Black Hat delivers perceptive observations on the complexity of the antihero (seemingly the only kind of hero America still creates). As the Los Angeles Times notes: “By underscoring the contradictory, often knee-jerk ways we encounter the heroes and villains of our culture, Klosterman illustrates the passionate but incomplete computations that have come to define American culture—and maybe even American morality.” I Wear the Black Hat is a rare example of serious criticism that’s instantly accessible and really, really funny.
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Exploring our love affair with anti-heroes.

I would recommend this book to those interested in analyzing modern culture's understanding and fascination with villainy. Klosterman's humorous tone and thought-provoking hypotheticals make for an accessible yet perceptive read. Readers will come away with a deeper understanding of the complexity of antiheroes and the contradictory ways we perceive them in American culture.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2013)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.