Hans Magnus Enzensberger is one of the most original and exciting thinkers of our time. Like Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould, or Richard Rorty, Enzensberger has the gift of making complex ideas about our world engaging and understandable to anyone--and he writes with rare wit and elegance, never resorting to jargon or obscurity. Born in a small Bavarian town in 1929, Enzensberger is a generalist and public intellectual in the grand old sense,...