"Ich mag technischen Schnickschnack"

[Dave Monroe]

07. März 2008
FR-Interview
"Ich mag technischen Schnickschnack"

Signor Eco, in Ihrem Essay "Ein Traum" beschreiben Sie, wie es wäre,
wenn unsere Zivilisation nach einem dritten Weltkrieg komplett den
Bach runter ginge: Sie schildern eine Welt ohne Computer, Internet
oder iPods. Haben Sie die Nase voll von all den technischen
Innovationsschüben? ...

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Turning Back the Clock
Hot Wars and Media Populism
Umberto Eco translated from Italian by Alastair McEwen

0151013519 Hardcover
ISBN-13/EAN: 9780151013517
$27.00
384pages
Copyright Year: 2007

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 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.

The famous author and respected scholar shows his practical, engaged
side: an intellectual involved in events both local and global, a man
concerned about taste, politics, education, ethics, and where our
troubled world is headed.

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Excerpt

Some Reflections on War and Peace

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Table of Contents

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