The Unconscious Civilization - Softcover

Saul, John Ralston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684871084 ISBN 13: 9780684871080

Publisher: Free Press, 1999

Synopsis

Edition Penguin Books, First Impression 1998. ISBN: 0-14-026464-7. PAPERBACK. 216 pages. Just light tan to paper edges. Other than that, the new and unread copy remains in excellent condition throughout: Soft cover intact; text all clean, neat and tight. Prompt dispatch from UK. (Please note the illustrating pictures you see next to our description are of the actual item in our stock and might not match with the main page's image, which is sometimes confusing).

About this title

About the Author:

John Ralston Saul is the International President of PEN International, an essayist, novelist, and long-time champion of freedom of expression. His works have been translated into twenty-three languages in thirty countries, are widely taught in universities, and central to the debate over contemporary society in many countries. They include the philosophical trilogy: Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, The Doubter's Companion, The Unconscious Civilization, and its conclusion, On Equilibrium. In The Collapse of Globalism, he predicted today's economic crisis. In the autumn of 2012, he published his first novel in fifteen years, Dark Diversions: A Traveller's Tale, a picaresque novel about the life of modern nouveaux riches.

His awards include South Korea's Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Pablo Neruda Medal, Canada's Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction, the inaugural Gutenberg Galaxy Award for Literature, and Italy's Premio Letterario Internazionale. He is a Companion in the Order of Canada and a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France. He is the recipient of seventeen honorary degrees.

About this edition

• Publisher: Free Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0684871084
• ISBN 13: 9780684871080
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208