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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 appeContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
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Turning Back the Clock by Umberto Eco
By Umberto Eco, translated by Alastair McEwan. Harcourt, 384 pp, $29.95, hardcover Without question the world's most famous medievalist and semiotician, Umberto Eco is also the world's only famous medievalist and semiotician. You don't usually become ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Hardcover 384 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0151013519
- ISBN-13: 9780151013517
- Publisher: Harcourt
- Pub date: Oct 01, 2007
- Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback
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Turning Back the Clock
More eclectic and playful than its title gives it credit for, this suite of recent essays and speeches finds Eco concluding that 'history repeats itself, and always in the form of conflict'. Terrorism, bloody 'hot' wars and fundamentalism both Christ ... (read full critics)