{"product_id":"the-unnamable-presentisbn-9781250251213","title":"The Unnamable Present","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ninth part of Roberto Calasso’s masterwork, \u003ci\u003eThe Unnamable Present\u003c\/i\u003e, is closely connected with themes of the first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Ruin of Kasch\u003c\/i\u003e (originally published in 1983, and reissued by FSG in a new translation). But while \u003ci\u003eKasch\u003c\/i\u003e is an enlightened exploration of modernity, \u003ci\u003eThe Unnamable Present\u003c\/i\u003e propels us into the twenty first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTourists, 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Unnamable Present\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated with sensitivity by Calasso’s longtime translator, Richard Dixon, \u003ci\u003eThe Unnamable Present\u003c\/i\u003e is a strikingly original and provocative vision of our times, from the writer \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e called “a literary institution of one.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram Content Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46382815609061,"sku":null,"price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-unnamable-presentisbn-9781250251213","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}