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ISBN: 9780847827534 - The Force of Reason
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The Force of Reason

Oriana Fallaci

ISBN: 9780847827534
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Rizzoli International Publications
Edition: illustrated edition


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The Force of Reason begins with the execution of Mastro Cecco, a scholar who in 1328 was burnt alive for heresy by the Inquisition because of his books, and ends with the equally heretical Fallaci who seven centuries later is burnt like him in an imaginary auto-da-fe. Between the first and the second stake, a rigorous analysis of what she calls the Burning of Troy…

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The Force of Reason begins with the execution of Mastro Cecco, a scholar who in 1328 was burnt alive for heresy by the Inquisition because of his books, and ends with the equally heretical Fallaci who seven centuries later is burnt like him in an imaginary auto-da-fe. Between the first and the second stake, a rigorous analysis of what she calls the Burning of Troy: the decay of a Europe which in her view is no longer Europe, it is an Islamic colony named Eurabia.

The analysis proceeds through historic and political and moral topics, as usual facing issues that nobody dares to face. Readers will find in it a fountain of ideas expressed also through her person. And, above all, the courage. The noble heart of a woman who does not know fear.

 
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