Exorbitance
A Grammar of Overdoing
$74.34
- Paperback
370 pages
- Release Date
21 July 2026
Summary
Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance – of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence – preoccupation with what is ‘over the top’ is not new. What is it about the idea of going unreasonably beyond what is reasonable that exercises fascination? In this wide-ranging work, essayist and scholar Steven Connor reflects on the considerable and persistent force of culture’s appetite for the exorbitant—a dynamic that not only survives despite the disapproval whic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781503646926 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1503646920 |
| Author: | Steven Connor |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
| Imprint: | Stanford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 370 |
| Release Date: | 21 July 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“An original, far-reaching, and consistently stimulating inquiry into the forms of excess—from desire to self-denial, glorification, and exaggeration. With eloquence, learning, and a rare sensibility to the contradictions of the present, Connor has probed the rhythms that make exorbitance.” —Daniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton University
“The wonder of this supremely subtle and witty rumination is that Connor’s irony retains something compellingly humane in its dismantlements, plumbing the foibles of desire so deeply that the results induce a kind of sympathetic vibration in the engrossed reading.“—Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa
Steven Connor
Steven Connor is Director of Research of the Digital Futures Institute at King’s College, London. He is the author of Giving Way: Thoughts on Unappreciated Dispositions (2019) and Styles of Seriousness (2023) along with many other books on cultural and historical topics.
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