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Inventing The Enemy And Other Occasional Writings
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Author : Umberto Eco
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2012
Inventing The Enemy And Other Occasional Writings written by Umberto Eco and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Collections categories.
A collection of essays from Italian novelist Umberto Eco on a wide range of topics.
Inventing The Enemy
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Author : Umberto Eco
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2012-09-04
Inventing The Enemy written by Umberto Eco and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-04 with Literary Collections categories.
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
Inventing The Enemy
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Author : Umberto Eco
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Inventing The Enemy written by Umberto Eco and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Inventing The Enemy
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Author : Wendy Z. Goldman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-08
Inventing The Enemy written by Wendy Z. Goldman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-08 with History categories.
Inventing the Enemy uses stories of personal relationships to explore the behaviour of ordinary people during Stalin's terror. Communist Party leaders strongly encouraged ordinary citizens and party members to 'unmask the hidden enemy' and people responded by flooding the secret police and local authorities with accusations. By 1937, every workplace was convulsed by hyper-vigilance, intense suspicion and the hunt for hidden enemies. Spouses, co-workers, friends and relatives disavowed and denounced each other. People confronted hideous dilemmas. Forced to lie to protect loved ones, they struggled to reconcile political imperatives and personal loyalties. Workplaces were turned into snake pits. The strategies that people used to protect themselves - naming names, pre-emptive denunciations, and shifting blame - all helped to spread the terror. Inventing the Enemy, a history of the terror in five Moscow factories, explores personal relationships and individual behaviour within a pervasive political culture of 'enemy hunting'.
Inventing The Public Enemy
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Author : David E. Ruth
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1996-04-15
Inventing The Public Enemy written by David E. Ruth and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-15 with History categories.
Ruth shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns, and ideas about what would sell.
Turning Back The Clock
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Author : Umberto Eco
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-11-27
Turning Back The Clock written by Umberto Eco and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-27 with Political Science categories.
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.
Travels In Hyperreality
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Author : Umberto Eco
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2014-06-24
Travels In Hyperreality written by Umberto Eco and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
A “scintillating collection” of essays on Disneyland, medieval times, and much more, from the author of Foucault’s Pendulum (Los Angeles Times). Collected here are some of Umberto Eco’s finest popular essays, recording the incisive and surprisingly entertaining observations of his restless intellectual mind. As the author puts it in the preface to the second edition: “In these pages, I try to interpret and to help others interpret some ‘signs.’ These signs are not only words, or images; they can also be forms of social behavior, political acts, artificial landscapes.” From Disneyland to holography and wax museums, Eco explores America’s obsession with artificial reality, suggesting that the craft of forgery has in certain cases exceeded reality itself. He examines Western culture’s enduring fascination with the middle ages, proposing that our most pressing modern concerns began in that time. He delves into an array of topics, from sports to media to what he calls the crisis of reason. Throughout these travels—both physical and mental—Eco displays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum. Translated by William Weaver
Foucault S Pendulum
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Author : Umberto Eco
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-08-29
Foucault S Pendulum written by Umberto Eco and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-29 with Fiction categories.
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth
Five Moral Pieces
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Author : Umberto Eco
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-09-30
Five Moral Pieces written by Umberto Eco and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-30 with Literary Collections categories.
Embracing the web of multi-culturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever before, making tolerance the ultimate value in today's world. What good, he asks in a talk delivered during the Gulf War, does war do in a world where the flow of goods, services, and information is unstoppable, and the enemy is always behind the lines? What makes news today, who decides how it will be presented and how does the way it is disseminated contribute to the widespread disillusionment with politics in general? In one of the most personal of the essays, Eco recalls experiencing liberation from fascism in Italy as a boy, and examines the various historical forms of fascism, always with an eye toward such ugly manifestations today. And finally, in an intensely personal open letter to an Italian Cardinal, Eco reflects on a question underlying all the reflections in the book - what does it mean to be moral or ethical when one doesn't believe in God? As thoughtful and subtle as they are pragmatic and relevant, these essays present one of the world's most important thinkers at the height of his critical powers.
The 48 Laws Of Power
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Author : Robert Greene
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2000-09-01
The 48 Laws Of Power written by Robert Greene and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-01 with Self-Help categories.
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.