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Title: End of Story: Toward an Annihilation of Language and History by Crispin Sartwell ISBN: 0-7914-4726-X Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95

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Summary: If you take a professional philosopher...
Comment: ...and splice him with a pissed off anarchist teenager, the result would be something resembling Crispin Sartwell. I can't believe I'm the first person to review this book; so the pleasure is all mine, I guess.
End of Story takes the themes of Sartwell's last three books, "Act Like You Know," "Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality," and "The Art of Living," and juices them up for the final duel against the Academy. You have intelligent and novel interpretations of Pascal, the Book of Job, Kierkegaard, Thoreau, Epictetus---all pitted against the ever-present obsession with language and narrative that have plagued both modern and post-modern thought. The amazing thing about this book is not only the striking originality of some of Sartwell's arguments, but also his constant awareness of what it is he's doing. In a typical endeavor the latter may not be strictly necessary (at least, as much as it is in Sartwell's endeavor), since it's universally understood these days that if we're going to play ball, it will be inside the language-arena. Sartwell is writing a book that says we should try not writing books for a change--and furthermore, that we're not always "writing," so to speak. He's talking to you and telling you to learn how to shut up--and furthermore, that we are "shut up," a lot, whether we know it or not. And he's aware of the paradox, never taking it for granted (which of course makes his thesis less "radical" than some might be inclined to suppose, but more feasible for it). In short--he finds a middle way between language and silence and starkly proclaims that we're always already there, and moreover that we should "try and do whatever happens."
Final note: I may have given the impression that this is a book primarily concerned with language, and on the surface it is, but it steers clear of the lofty and ethereal discussions so Greek to us laypeople, and grounds itself first and foremost in life. It's practicality is stunning.
Beautifully written, interesting to the point of being criminal, and short enough to read in a night or two. Although, you'll probably spend a great deal more time with it-- willingly.
The finest academic work to come out in years: meaning: this book is the new monster for academics.