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Turning Back The Clock
eBook - Hot Wars and Media Populism
Langbeschreibung
After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's 'Great Game', we have gone back to the clash between Islam and Christianity. The ghost of the Yellow Peril has been resurrected, the nineteenth-century anti-Darwin debate has been reopened, right-wing governments predominate.
It almost seems like history, tired of the big steps forward it has taken in the past two millennia, has gone into reverse. With his customary sharpness and wit, Eco proposes, not so much that we resume a forward march, but at the very least that we cease marching backwards.
Hauptbeschreibung
After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's 'Great Game', we have gone back to the clash between Islam and Christianity. The ghost of the Yellow Peril has been resurrected, the nineteenth-century anti-Darwin debate has been reopened, right-wing governments predominate. It almost seems like history, tired of the big steps forward it has taken in the past two millennia, has gone into reverse. With his customary sharpness and wit, Eco proposes, not so much that we resume a forward march, but at the very least that we cease marching backwards.
Umberto Eco(19322016) wrote fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. His first novel,The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller. His other works includeFoucault's Pendulum,The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino,The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Prague CemeteryandNumero Zeroalong with many brilliant collections of essays.
Autor*in:
Umberto Eco
Art:
Digitalprodukt/E-Book (Download)
Sprache :
Englisch
Zeit:
384 S., 0.36 MB
ISBN-13:
9781407018744
Verlag:
VINTAGE DIGITAL
Erscheinungsdatum:
27.11.2014
Erscheinungsjahr:
2014
Ausgabe:
1/2014