The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena
The renowned postmodernist philosopher’s tour-de-force contemplation of sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture after the revolutionary ‘orgy’ of the 1960s.
Paperback, 200 pages
ISBN: 9781844673452
June 2009
$15.95 / £6.99
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Part of the Radical Thinkers series
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The most important and original French thinker of the past twenty years.
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