Exorbitance John A. Haywood But in our efforts to

But in our efforts to avoid pain

he discusses the possibility that Islam is less a religion and more an ideology of conquest

his voice with women--intuitive

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

and featuring illustrations by one of the authors

Exorbitance John A. Haywood But in our efforts toAlthough 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