Unnamable Present by Calasso Roberto (48 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.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. 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.…

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hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: near fine dust-jacket, cover price $26.00, fresh attractive copy, near fine black hardcover. LAID IN: long, detailed New York Review of Books review by John Banville. CALASSO, ROBERTO. The unnamable present. Translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019, stated First American edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, 193pp., . "The strikingly original ninth book in Roberto Calasso's monumental exploration of civilization" - CONTENTS: I. Tourists and terrorists -- II. The Vienna Gas Company -- III. Sighting of the Towers. ISBN 9780374279479.…

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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. …

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Hardback. , . Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of Roberto Calasso's masterwork, The Unnamable Present, is closely connected with themes of the first book, The Ruin of Kasch (originally published in 1983, and 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.". Hardback.…

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