{"product_id":"the-unnamable-present-by-roberto-calasso-9780141988016","title":"The Unnamable Present","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA concise, yet wide-ranging inquiry into the roots of modernity and the turmoil of the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTourists, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Unnamable Present\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Anxiety\u003c\/em\u003e give way to something altogether more unsettling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46986683678956,"sku":"9780141988016","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14682143482238.jpg?v=1763003470","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-unnamable-present-by-roberto-calasso-9780141988016","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}