Avram Alpert

Author

Fellow at The New Institute in Hamburg, Germany, Avram Alpert is the author of three books, _The Good Enough Life_ (Princeton University Press, 2022) being the latest. Alpert works to understand what values we can live by in a world as connected, chaoticm and potentially catastrophic as the present. After receiving his PhD, he has taught at Rutgers and Princeton University. With Rit Prenmnath, he co-edited and co-managed the programming of _Shifter Magazine_ from 2014-2021. In 2018, with Meleko Mokgosi and Anthea Behm, he cofounded the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program at Jack Shainman Gallery. His other books are : _Global Origins of the Modern Self, from Montaigne to Suzuki_ (SUNY Press, 2019) and _A Partial Enlightenment : What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well without Perfection_ (Columbia University Press, 2021). His writing has also appeared in _Aeon_, _The Chronicle of Higher Education_, _the Los Angeles Review of Books_, _The New York Times_, _the Washington Post_, _Truhout_, and elsewhere.