Divided Mind is a short book—just 45 pages—with more in it than many more ample tomes. It is a collection of essays by George Scialabba, a freelance thinker much influenced by the philosopher Richard Rorty. With Rorty, he brings a well-schooled sensibility to bear on the problem of how to create a society that allows everyone a fair shot at pleasure, but also enables those so inclined to pursue more arcane escstasies. He writes of topics this weighty, invoking Nietzsche, D.H. Lawrence, Orwell, Plato and others, with a tremendous lightness and wit. One hopes more of his work will be made available to those unfortunate enough miss his byline when it pops up in the (disappearing) venues for intelligent essays. That Divided Mind is all but unavailable is made slightly more bearable by the knowledge that a new book by Scialabba, What are Intellectuals Good For, is forthcoming.