Exorbitance John A. Haywood In keeping with the Institute's

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Bringing together an impressive range of new scholarship deeply informed both by the legacies of the past and current intellectual trends

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Exorbitance John A. Haywood In keeping with the Institute'sAlthough 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