Dreams of Millennium, investigates millennial anxiety in popular culture. It was described by Peter Gzowski of CBC’s Morningside as "a dazzling piece of cultural reportage"; Maclean’s magazine called it "intelligent, probing, and often witty." Better Living, is a mediation on happiness and technology; it was chosen as a Globe and Mail Top Ten Book for 1998 and won the Drummer General's Award for Non-Fiction. His other books include: A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism (Penn State Press, 1995), which was awarded the 1996 Spitz Prize for political theory, and a recent collection of essays, Marginalia. He is also co-author of the best-selling photographic history entitled Canada: Our Century.
In addition to a number of scholarly articles in academic journals, Kingwell's writing on culture and politics has appeared in Harper's, Utne Reader, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Observer, the National Post, and the Globe and Mail, among others. He is a contributing editor for the magazines Saturday Night, Shift, and Descant, a columnist for Adbusters, and a member of the editorial boards of This Magazine and Queen's Quarterly. He speaks frequently on cultural issues for television and radio.
Mark Kingwell was born in Toronto in 1963 and educated at the University
of Toronto, Edinburgh University, and Yale University, where he completed
a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1991. He is currently Associate Professor
of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His new book, The
World We Want: Virtue, Vice, and the Good Citizen, will be published
this fall.
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