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020			_a9780141988016
082			_a854.92 _bCAL
100			_aCalasso, Roberto
245			_aUnnameable present
260			_bPenguin Books _c2017 _aLondon :
300			_a193 p. ; _c20 cm
365			_b599.00 _cINR _d01
490			_aPenguin philosophy
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aTourists, 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 spanning Hitler's rise to power and the end of the Second World War, when the world nearly annihilated itself, our current era begins to take on an unprecedented form. What emerges is something illusory, ever-shifting and occasionally murderous. It is the age of the insubstantial: the unnamable present. This book 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.
650			_aCultural evolution
650			_aElectronic books
650			_aSocial evolution
650			_aGlobal politics
650			_aCultural globalization
650			_aNationalism
650			_aInternet pornography
650			_a Anomie
650			_aBroken epistemology
650			_a Existential threat
650			_a Holocaust
650			_aAdolf Hitler
650			_a German idealism
650			_aAntogonist
650			_a Christianity
650			_a Viennese Jews
650			_aNazi principles
650			_aTerrorism
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