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Turning back the clock : hot wars and media populism / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.
Van Pelt Library PQ4865.C6 A62613 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eco, Umberto.
- Standardized Title:
- Passo di gambero. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Eco, Umberto--Political and social views.
- Eco, Umberto.
- Political and social views.
- Physical Description:
- 369 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Orlando : Harcourt, [2007]
- Contents:
- Steps Back 1
- I War, Peace, and Other Matters
- Some Reflections on War and Peace 9
- Love America and March for Peace 31
- The Prospects for Europe 37
- The Wolf and the Lamb: The Rhetoric of Oppression 44
- Enlightenment and Common Sense 66
- From Play to Carnival 71
- The Loss of Privacy 77
- On Political Correctness 89
- On Private Schools 97
- Science, Technology, and Magic 103
- II Chronicles of a Regime
- For Whom the Bell Tolls: A 2001 Appeal for a Moral Referendum 115
- The 2001 Electoral Campaign and Veteran Communist Strategy 121
- On Mass Media Populism 128
- Foreigners and Us 157
- Revisiting History 166
- The Revolt Against the Law 180
- Pasta Cunegonda 190
- Chronicles of the Late Empire 195
- III The Return of the Great Game
- Between Dr. Watson and Lawrence of Arabia 201
- Words Are Stones 214
- Back to the Seventies 224
- Kamikazes and Assassins 229
- IV The Return of the Crusades
- Holy Wars, Passion, and Religion 235
- Negotiating in a Multiethnic Society 247
- The Taking of Jerusalem: An Eyewitness Report 253
- Beauty Queens, Fundamentalists, and Lepers 260
- What Are We to Do with the Pre-Adamites? 263
- V The Summa and the Rest
- The Roots of Europe 269
- The Crucifix, Its Uses and Customs 272
- On the Soul of the Embryo 277
- Chance and Intelligent Design 281
- Hands off My Son! 284
- Those Who Don't Believe in God Believe in Everything 288
- Relativism? 309
- VI The Defense of the Race
- Are the Italians Anti-Semites? 313
- The Plot 317
- Some of My Best Friends 320
- Some of Her Best Friends 323
- VII The Twilight of the New Millennium
- A Dream 329
- On the Shoulders of Giants 334
- On the Disadvantages and Advantages of Death 355.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- A collection of previously published articles.
- ISBN:
- 9780151013517
- 0151013519
- OCLC:
- 141483068
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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