After the Guarantor

By IVAN LEBEDEV

Some changes cannot be given a date.

One day you notice that the words about what is owed and what is just are the same as ever, and the force has gone out of them.

For centuries a higher authority stood surety for meaning. God held that place. Then Reason, then Progress, then the Market. Today the position is empty, and the emptiness has filled hastily with counterfeits that behave as though they were the real thing.

After the Guarantor follows this hollowing through the whole depth of an ordinary life: through what we buy, what we admire, how we judge one another, and what we rest the law on.

Ivan Lebedev writes from inside the condition rather than above it. Disorientation here is the ordinary weather of a period whose guarantees have expired, and the book asks what it takes to hold a direction in that weather.

The book neither consoles nor frightens. It asks the question it was written for: does an orientation hold that promises no eternity?

331 pages. Written for readers who want an argument carried through to the end instead of summarized.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HBR69PCF
• ISBN13: 9798188961824
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"