Winner of a MacArthur Foundation grant (popularly known as the "genius award"), Marc Shell has emerged as one of the most innovative and powerful thinkers of our times. As Stanley Cavell of Harvard University has written, "Marc Shell's originality of mind and his radical depth of learning are astounding, compelling, like a force of nature. The world looks different after an encounter with the seriousness and fruitfulness of his mind." In works such...