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Umberto Eco

Inventing the Enemy

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This essay collection by the revered public intellectual displays his “profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes” (Booklist).
In these fourteen essays, Umberto Eco examines many of the ideas that have inspired his provocative and illuminating fiction. From the title essay—a disquisition of the notion that every country needs an enemy—he takes readers on an exploration of lost islands, mythical realms, and the medieval world. His topics range from indignant reviews of James Joyce’s Ulysses by fascist journalists, to an examination of Saint Thomas Aquinas’s notions about the soul of an unborn child, to censorship, violence and WikiLeaks. Here are essays full of passion, curiosity, and probing intellect by one of the world’s most esteemed scholars and critically acclaimed, best-selling novelists.
“True wit and wisdom coexist with fierce scholarship inside Umberto Eco, a writer who actually knows a thing or two about being truly human.” — Buffalo News
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297 бумажных страниц
Дата публикации оригинала
2012
Год выхода издания
2012
Издательства
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Mariner Books
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  • Luis Héctor Inclán Cienfuegosцитирует2 года назад
    Rather than a real threat highlighting the ways in which these enemies are different from us, the difference itself becomes a symbol of what we find threatening.
  • Luis Héctor Inclán Cienfuegosцитирует2 года назад
    From the very beginning, however, the people who become our enemies often are not those who directly threaten us (as would have been the case with the barbarians), but those whom someone has an interest in portraying as a true threat even when they aren’t.
  • Luis Héctor Inclán Cienfuegosцитирует2 года назад
    Enemies are different from us and observe customs that are not our own

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