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Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism
Contributor(s): Eco, Umberto (Author), McEwen, Alastair (Translator)
ISBN: 0156034212     ISBN-13: 9780156034210
Publisher: Mariner Books
OUR PRICE:   $12.75  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2008
* Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: 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. In this series of provocative, passionate, and witty essays, Umberto Eco responds. Discussing the Middle East in addition to Harry Potter, the Tower of Babel as well as "The Da Vinci Code," Eco 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?


In "Turning Back the Clock," the bestselling author and respected scholar turns his famous intellect toward events both local and global to look at where our troubled world is headed.

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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Essays
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Collections | European - General
Dewey: 854.914
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.75 lbs) 369 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Italy
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Eco, Umberto: - UMBERTO ECO (1932-2016) was the author of numerous essay collections and seven novels, including The Name of the Rose, The Prague Cemetery, and Inventing the Enemy. He received Italy's highest literary award, the Premio Strega, was named a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the French government, and was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.