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The Unnamable Present Calasso, Roberto Very Good
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- ISBN
- 9781250251213
- Book Title
- Unnamable Present
- Item Length
- 8.7in
- Publisher
- Picador
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Civilization
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 8.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of Roberto Calasso's work in progress, The Unnamable Present , is closely connected with themes of the first book, The Ruin of Kasch (originally published in 1983, and recently reissued by FSG in a new translation). But while Kasch is an enlightened exploration of modernity, The Unnamable Present propels us into the twenty first century. Tourists, terrorists, secularists, fundamentalists, hackers, transhumanists, algorithmicians: these are all tribes that inhabit the unnamable present and act on its nervous system. This is a world that seems to have no living past, but was foreshadowed in the period between 1933 and 1945, when everything appeared bent on self-annihilation. The Unnamable Present is a meditation on the obscure and ubiquitous process of transformation happening today in all societies, which makes so many previous names either inadequate or misleading or a parody of what they used to mean. Translated with sensitivity by Calasso's longtime translator, Richard Dixon, The Unnamable Present is a strikingly original and provocative vision of our times, from the writer The Paris Review called "a literary institution of one."
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Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250251214
ISBN-13
9781250251213
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038460517
Product Key Features
Book Title
Unnamable Present
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Civilization
Publication Year
2020
Genre
History
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.7in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
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"[A] tremendous achievement . . . in Mr. Calasso's kaleidoscopic series of investigations into the spiritual biography of the secular West. . . . Mr. Calasso is not a lecturer or a literalist. He does not write straightforwardly, but shuffles between ideas and episodes, treating all thought as contemporaneous. He handles the events of the past with the reverence of a priest, rather than the dispassion of a historian. Material facts are the tangible aspect of hidden truths." -- Dominic Green, The Wall Street Journal "Deeply learned . . . a tour de force and among the most memorable things Calasso has written over the course of his series . . . Admirers of contemporary European literature and continental philosophy will find this engaging and provocative." -- Kirkus, "[A] tremendous achievement . . . in Mr. Calasso's kaleidoscopic series of investigations into the spiritual biography of the secular West. . . . Mr. Calasso is not a lecturer or a literalist. He does not write straightforwardly, but shuffles between ideas and episodes, treating all thought as contemporaneous. He handles the events of the past with the reverence of a priest, rather than the dispassion of a historian." -- Dominic Green, The Wall Street Journal "Deeply learned . . . a tour de force and among the most memorable things Calasso has written over the course of his series . . . Admirers of contemporary European literature and continental philosophy will find this engaging and provocative." -- Kirkus, "Deeply learned . . . a tour de force and among the most memorable things Calasso has written over the course of his series . . . Admirers of contemporary European literature and continental philosophy will find this engaging and provocative." -- Kirkus
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854.92
Dewey Edition
23
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