Escape from the Nineteenth Century and Other Essays

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Literary Nonfiction. ESCAPE FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY is a group of essays by cultural critic Peter Lamborn Wilson and tackles the notion of modern progress: Did the Nineteenth Century ever come to an end? Was the "Twentieth" Century just a rerun? And what about the Twenty-First Century, the New Millennium? Another lackluster confirmation of the Eternal Return? Another garden of secondhand time? If to know "History" as tragedy is to escape its repetition as farce, then perhaps we need to look more deeply at this Past that won't stop haunting us. Two illuminated madmen Charles Fourier and Friedrich Nietzsche and two too-sane geniuses J.P. Proudhon and Karl Marx are enlisted in the breakout plan."

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1570270732

ISBN13:9781570270734

Release Date:December 1998

Publisher:Autonomedia

Length:206 Pages

Weight:0.68 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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