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Author : Umberto Eco
Release : 2012
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 978/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Inventing the Enemy and Other Occasional Writings by : Umberto Eco
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.
Author : Umberto Eco
Release : 2012-09-04
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 605/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Inventing the Enemy by : Umberto Eco
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
Author : Umberto Eco
Release : 2013
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Book Synopsis Inventing the Enemy by : Umberto Eco
Download or read book Inventing the Enemy written by Umberto Eco. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Umberto Eco
Release : 2017
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 484/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chronicles of a Liquid Society by : Umberto Eco
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
Author : Umberto Eco
Release : 2002-10-01
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 058/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Five Moral Pieces by : Umberto Eco
Download or read book Five Moral Pieces written by Umberto Eco. This book was released on 2002-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this prescient essay collection, the acclaimed author of Foucault’s Pendulum examines the cultural trends and perils at the dawn of the 21st century. In the last decade of the 20th century, Umberto Eco saw an urgent need to embrace tolerance and multiculturalism in the face of our world’s ever-increasing interconnectivity. At a talk delivered during the first Gulf War, he points out the absurdity of armed conflict in a globalized economy where the flow of information is unstoppable and the enemy is always behind the lines. Elsewhere, he questions the influence of the news media and identifies its contribution to our collective disillusionment with politics. In a deeply personal essay, Eco recalls his boyhood experience of Italy’s liberation from fascism. He then analyzes the universal elements of fascism, including the “cult of tradition” and a “suspicion of intellectual life.” And finally, in an open letter to an Italian cardinal, Eco reflects on a question underlying all the reflections in the book: What does it mean to be moral or ethical when one doesn't believe in God? “At just 111 pages, Five Moral Pieces packs a philosophical wallop surprising in such a slender book. Or maybe not so surprising. Eco's prose here is beautiful.”—January Magazine
