The Unnamable Present by Roberto Calasso

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