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Panopticon : twenty ten-minute essays / Hans Magnus Enzensberger ; translated by Tess Lewis.
Van Pelt Library PT2609.N9 E5913 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Enzensberger, Hans Magnus, author.
- Series:
- German list
- The German list
- Standardized Title:
- Enzensbergers Panoptikum. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German essays--Translations into English.
- German essays.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 155 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Seagull Books, 2018.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Contents:
- Instead of a Blurb vii
- Microeconomics 1
- On Insoluble Problems 8
- How to Invent Nations at Your Desk 15
- Retirement Plans 23
- Six Billion Experts 29
- The Pitfalls of Transparency 36
- Poor Orwell! 44
- The Delightful Displeasures of Culture 51
- As If 57
- Whither Photography? 63
- Ordinary Miracles 70
- Honourable and Less Honourable Professions 76
- Why Everything Always Leaves Spots 83
- It's a Gift! 93
- Is Science a Secular Religion? 102
- Alexander von Humboldt and the Battle Between Intelligence and Power 110
- Models of No Value 117
- Is Sex Necessary, and If So, How? 122
- Of Common Sense and Its Deprecators 128
- Cosmic Secret 134
- A Few Sources 143.
- Notes:
- "First published as Enzensbergers Panoptikum. Zwanzig Zehn-Minuten-Essays, © Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin, 2012"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-155).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780857425034
- 085742503X
- OCLC:
- 979568533
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