Discusses the seventeenth century obsession with manageable rational categories, and argues that the failure of modernity is making that attitude popular again
From the bestselling author of White Noise comes a riveting exploration on wealth as a man's life gradually falls to pieces over the course of one day—now a major motion picture directed by David...
“A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”―Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy―as well...