
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...

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...
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These twenty essays of derisive humor and academic rigor seek to solve the unsolvable, dismantle the myth of the everyday and look for the three-legged cat. Briefly but thoroughly analyzing the present, this book explores reasons that lead people to collect things, reflects on...