Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

Eco, Umberto

ISBN 10: 0151013519 / ISBN 13: 9780151013517

Published by Harcourt, Inc., Orlando, 2006

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A very beautiful and desirable first edition, first printing in As New condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author Umberto Eco directly on the title page. Surprisingly scarce; Eco's collection of provocative essays, originally published in two leading Italian newspapers. Eco examines subjects such as Mideastern and European politics, myth, prejudice, globalization, The Da Vinci Code, magical thinking, rhetoric, religion, intelligent design and . A phenomenon like Harry Potter. Translated from the Italian by Alistair McEwen; 8vo; [xii], 369, [3] pages; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 14809

Bibliographic Details

Title: Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media ...

Publisher: Harcourt, Inc., Orlando

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition; First Printing.

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

Umberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the bestselling author of numerous novels and collections of essays. He lives in Milan.