Panopticon

by Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Book Overview

A collection of daring short essays on topical themes, including politics, economics, religion, society.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection not from Jeremy Bentham's famous prison but from a mid-1930s Cabinet of Curiosities opened in Germany by Karl Valentin. "There," writes Enzensberger, "viewers could admire, along with implements of torture, all manner of abnormalities and sensational inventions." And that's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085742503X
• ISBN13: 9780857425034
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.9"