Description
| Product ID: | 9780141988016 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Unnamable Present |
| Authors: | Author: Roberto Calasso |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays, Social and political philosophy, Society and culture: general, Social & political philosophy, Society & culture: general, 21st century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-04-23 |
