Cosmopolis

2003 Foreign exchange market

Author : Don DeLillo
Release : 2003
Genre : Foreign exchange market
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Book Rating : 249/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Cosmopolis written by Don DeLillo. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Packer, a young billionaire asset manager, journeys across New York in his limousine despite a threat against his life, and the occurances of various events that are stalling traffic throughout the city.

Cosmopolis

2003-04-01 Fiction

Author : Don DeLillo
Release : 2003-04-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 283/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Cosmopolis written by Don DeLillo. This book was released on 2003-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson. It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism—when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments— are poised to crash. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. Today he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol’s funeral and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors—experts on security, technology, currency, finance and a few sexual partners—as the limo sputters toward an increasingly uncertain future. Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo’s thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era.

Cosmopolis

2011-03-09 Fiction

Author : Don DeLillo
Release : 2011-03-09
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 289/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Cosmopolis written by Don DeLillo. This book was released on 2011-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he finds the city at a virtual standstill because the President is visiting, a rapper's funeral is proceeding, and a violent protest is being staged in Times Square by anti-globalist groups. Most worryingly, Eric's bodyguards are concerned that he may be a target... An electrifying study in affectlessness, infused with deep cynicism and measured detachment; a harsh indictment of the life-denying tendencies of capitalism; as brutal a dissection of the American dream as Wolfe's Bonfire or Ellis's Psycho, Cosmopolis is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized.

Cosmopolis

1992-11 History

Author : Stephen Toulmin
Release : 1992-11
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 383/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Cosmopolis written by Stephen Toulmin. This book was released on 1992-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavor, this vision perpetuated a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. Stephen Toulmin confronts that agenda—its illusions and its consequences for our present and future world. "By showing how different the last three centuries would have been if Montaigne, rather than Descartes, had been taken as a starting point, Toulmin helps destroy the illusion that the Cartesian quest for certainty is intrinsic to the nature of science or philosophy."—Richard M. Rorty, University of Virginia "[Toulmin] has now tackled perhaps his most ambitious theme of all. . . . His aim is nothing less than to lay before us an account of both the origins and the prospects of our distinctively modern world. By charting the evolution of modernity, he hopes to show us what intellectual posture we ought to adopt as we confront the coming millennium."—Quentin Skinner, New York Review of Books

Imperfect Cosmopolis

2011-04-15 History

Author : Georg Cavallar
Release : 2011-04-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 59X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Imperfect Cosmopolis written by Georg Cavallar. This book was released on 2011-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In current debates, the term cosmopolitanismA” often remains quite vague and leads to sweeping generalizations. Unlike many recent publications, this book looks at the notion from a decidedly historical perspective, trying to give depth and texture to the concept.

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