What makes the work more than a screed is its intricate examination of societies from ancient Mesopotamia to 1990s Madagascar, and thinkers ranging from Rabelais to Nietzsche — and to George W. Bush's brother Neil.
Brava to Laura Kipnis for her intelligent examination of modern society's infatuation with the delusional notion of "happily ever after".
Yet Dieudonné's humor is rooted in an intense, anthropological examination of French society that goes far beyond mocking Jews.
The Australian writer Cory Taylor managed it, and she has left us her wisdom and experience in this book, which is part memoir, part critical examination of western society's dysfunctional relationship with mortality.
In these works he concentrated mainly on an examination of French society from the Revolution of 1789 to the eve of the Revolution of 1848, organically linking realistic observation and visionary intuition while at the same time seeking to analyze the underlying principles of this new world.
This examination of contemporary society and human nature remains at once funny and sad, real and satiric.
His sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror is a thorough and pessimistic examination of modern society as it relates to new technologies.
Though, in my opinion, his book is one of the best examinations of American society of the twentieth century, it is exactly that: confined, at least in some respects, to the twentieth century.
Fundamentally, said Larry Kramer, an assistant dean at the New York University law school, constitutional law is the examination of how a society constrains itself.
