Description: A concise, yet wide-ranging inquiry into the roots of modernity and the turmoil of the present day. Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians- in this book Roberto Calasso considers the tribes that inhabit and inform the world today. A world that feels more elusive than ever before. Yet once contrasted with the period between 1933 and 1945, when the world made a partially successful attempt at self-annihilation, the new millennium begins to take on an unprecedented form. What emerges is something illusory, ever-shifting and occasionally murderous- the unnamable present. This book, the ninth part of a work in progress, is a meditation on the obscure and ubiquitous process of transformation happening in societies today, where distant echoes of Auden's The Age of Anxiety give way to something altogether more unsettling.
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EAN: 9780141988016
UPC: 9780141988016
ISBN: 9780141988016
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Item Length: 19.8 cm
Book Title: The Unnamable Present
Item Height: 198mm
Item Width: 129mm
Author: Roberto Calasso
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Biographies & True Stories
Item Weight: 157g
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
