Escape from the Nineteenth Century and Other Essays

by Peter Lamborn Wilson

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...

• 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"