Turning Back the Clock
Subtitle: Hot Wars and Media Populism
Contributors: Alastair McEwen (Translator)
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: October 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780151013517
Subjects: Contemporary Politics; Eco, Umberto - Prose & Criticism; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Politics/International Relations; Continental European; Essays; Popular Culture - General; Social Science / Popular Culture; Journalism; Eco, Umberto; Political and social views
Description: "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 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."--Jacket.