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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 mid1930s 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 what he offers here: a wideranging, surprising look a...
Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection not from Jeremy Bentham’s famous prison but from a mid1930s 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 what he offers here: a wideranging, surprising look a...