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Umberto Eco
ISBN: 9780099503682
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Vintage
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The ghost of the Yellow Peril has been resurrected, the nineteenth-century anti-Darwin debate has been reopened, and 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. This book proposes that we cease marching backwards.
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.
| ISBN | 0099503689 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9780099503682
(What's this?) | | Pages | 384 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Weight (grammes) | 258 | | Imprint | Vintage | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 200 | | Publication date | 04 Sep 2008 | | Width (mm) | 135 | | Translator | Alastair McEwen | | Spine width (mm) | 24 | | DEWEY | 854.914 | | Academic level | Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly |
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PRAISE FOR"TURNING BACK THE CLOCK" "A collection of charming, bite-size missives . . ."Turning Back the Clock"is among the season's sprightlier works of nonfiction.""--The New York Observer""" PRAISE FOR UMBERTO ECO "One of the most influential thinkers of our time."--"Los Angeles Times""" "Eco combines scholarship with a love of paradox and a quirky, sometimes outrageous, sense of humor."--"The Atlantic Monthly"  Be the first to write a customer review
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