Isbn: 9780241344637 - The Unnamable Present (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 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. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The Unnamable Present This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardback. Condition: As New. The present is difficult enough while it is happening, but Roberto Calasso makes the alarming case that it may also be difficult to name. The Unnamable Present is a sharp, elegant, unsettling reflection on modernity, secular life, terrorism, technology, consumer culture, politics, and the strange spiritual vacancy of the contemporary world. Calasso writes like someone examining civilisation through smoked glass: calmly, beautifully, and with the faint implication that things have gone badly wrong in ways we have not yet understood. This is not a cheerful book of solutions. It is more like a finely made intellectual weather report, noting the pressure drops, cultural tremors, and moral fog banks of the age. The modern world, in Calasso?s hands, appears efficient, connected, distracted, and oddly hollow, which is impressive considering how loudly it talks about itself. There is a pleasing irony in the title. The present may be unnamable, but it still arrives neatly printed by Allen Lane, with an ISBN, a cover price, and all the usual apparatus of cultural respectability. Even the age of fragmentation, it seems, can be catalogued. This as new copy, as sold by Crappy Old Books, is ideal for readers of philosophy, cultural criticism, modern thought, and anyone who enjoys books that do not so much explain the world as make it feel slightly more mysterious and much less innocent. …

Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - Ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt, mit leichten Lagerspuren - Roberto Calasso is the author of many books including the international bestseller The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony and The Ruin of Kasch, both parts of a work in progress of which The Unnamable Present is part nine.…

Condition: Very Good.