Inventing the Enemy

2012-09-04 Literary Collections

Author : Umberto Eco
Release : 2012-09-04
Genre : Literary Collections
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Download or read book Inventing the Enemy written by Umberto Eco. This book was released on 2012-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay collection by the revered public intellectual displays his “profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes” (Booklist). In these fourteen essays, Umberto Eco examines many of the ideas that have inspired his provocative and illuminating fiction. From the title essay—a disquisition of the notion that every country needs an enemy—he takes readers on an exploration of lost islands, mythical realms, and the medieval world. His topics range from indignant reviews of James Joyce’s Ulysses by fascist journalists, to an examination of Saint Thomas Aquinas’s notions about the soul of an unborn child, to censorship, violence and WikiLeaks. Here are essays full of passion, curiosity, and probing intellect by one of the world’s most esteemed scholars and critically acclaimed, best-selling novelists. “True wit and wisdom coexist with fierce scholarship inside Umberto Eco, a writer who actually knows a thing or two about being truly human.” — Buffalo News

Inventing the Enemy and Other Occasional Writings

2012 Literary Collections

Author : Umberto Eco
Release : 2012
Genre : Literary Collections
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Download or read book Inventing the Enemy and Other Occasional Writings written by Umberto Eco. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays from Italian novelist Umberto Eco on a wide range of topics.

Inventing the Enemy

2011-08-08 History

Author : Wendy Z. Goldman
Release : 2011-08-08
Genre : History
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Download or read book Inventing the Enemy written by Wendy Z. Goldman. This book was released on 2011-08-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventing the Enemy uses stories of personal relationships to explore the behaviour of ordinary people during Stalin's terror. Communist Party leaders strongly encouraged ordinary citizens and party members to 'unmask the hidden enemy' and people responded by flooding the secret police and local authorities with accusations. By 1937, every workplace was convulsed by hyper-vigilance, intense suspicion and the hunt for hidden enemies. Spouses, co-workers, friends and relatives disavowed and denounced each other. People confronted hideous dilemmas. Forced to lie to protect loved ones, they struggled to reconcile political imperatives and personal loyalties. Workplaces were turned into snake pits. The strategies that people used to protect themselves - naming names, pre-emptive denunciations, and shifting blame - all helped to spread the terror. Inventing the Enemy, a history of the terror in five Moscow factories, explores personal relationships and individual behaviour within a pervasive political culture of 'enemy hunting'.

Turning Back the Clock

2007 Literary Collections

Author : Umberto Eco
Release : 2007
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 517/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Turning Back the Clock written by Umberto Eco. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Umberto Eco's response is a provocative, passionate, and witty series of essays--which originally appeared in the Italian newspapers La Repubblica and L'Espresso--that leaves no slogan unexamined, no innovation unexposed. What led us into this age of hot wars and media populism, and how was it sold to us as progress? Eco discusses such topics as racism, mythology, the European Union, rhetoric, the Middle East, technology, September 11, medieval Latin, television ads, globalization, Harry Potter, anti-Semitism, logic, the Tower of Babel, intelligent design, Italian street demonstrations, fundamentalism, The Da Vinci Code, and magic and magical thinking.The famous author and respected scholar shows his practical, engaged side: an intellectual involved in events both local and global, a man concerned about taste, politics, education, ethics, and where our troubled world is headed.

Chronicles of a Liquid Society

2017 History

Author : Umberto Eco
Release : 2017
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 484/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Chronicles of a Liquid Society written by Umberto Eco. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A posthumous collection of essays by the great novelist, essayist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco

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