Inventing The Enemy
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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
Narrativizing Theories
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Author : Benjamin John Peters
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2020-02-06
Narrativizing Theories written by Benjamin John Peters and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-06 with Philosophy categories.
Ours is an age of offense, a time of reactionary shock--always received, never given. Ours is an age that has forgone cultural narratives, a time of individualism--wherein personal identities trump the collective spirit. Ours is an age of failing earth, a time of ecological collapse--yet the consumption of global capitalism continues to run amok. But don't fear. You have the correct worldview, the best solutions. It's not your fault these things are happening. It's the president's, the immigrant's, and the Islamicist's. Or perhaps It's the socialist's, the tree hugger's, and the baby killer's. But it's not your fault. Never yours. For the world exists as you see it--in an echo chamber lined with golden pixels. Do I still have your attention? Then join me. Within the covers of Narrativizing Theories, I dive into ambiguity and aesthetics to depict how clashing worldviews exist side by side yet remain mutually incompatible. I examine how cultures distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable beliefs, embodiments, and identities. And I outline an aesthetic theory of ambiguity that highlights--through the twists and turns of literature--the provisionality of knowledge and the narrativization of reality.
Language And Conflict
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Author : Sue Wright
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 1998
Language And Conflict written by Sue Wright and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Social Science categories.
The idea of conflict brings us inexorably to nationalism, then to identity and thus to language. These three essays on language and conflict are a result of a growing awareness that researchers in discourse analysis and sociolinguistics and in the peace and conflict resolution field have much to say to each other.
Inventing The Enemy
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Author : Umberto Eco
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
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Five Moral Pieces
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Author : Umberto Eco
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2002-10-01
Five Moral Pieces 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 2002-10-01 with Literary Collections categories.
In this prescient essay collection, the acclaimed author of Foucault’s Pendulum examines the cultural trends and perils at the dawn of the 21st century. In the last decade of the 20th century, Umberto Eco saw an urgent need to embrace tolerance and multiculturalism in the face of our world’s ever-increasing interconnectivity. At a talk delivered during the first Gulf War, he points out the absurdity of armed conflict in a globalized economy where the flow of information is unstoppable and the enemy is always behind the lines. Elsewhere, he questions the influence of the news media and identifies its contribution to our collective disillusionment with politics. In a deeply personal essay, Eco recalls his boyhood experience of Italy’s liberation from fascism. He then analyzes the universal elements of fascism, including the “cult of tradition” and a “suspicion of intellectual life.” And finally, in an 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? “At just 111 pages, Five Moral Pieces packs a philosophical wallop surprising in such a slender book. Or maybe not so surprising. Eco's prose here is beautiful.”—January Magazine
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 : 2017-08-01
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 2017-08-01 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
Six Walks In The Fictional Woods
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Author : Umberto Eco
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1994
Six Walks In The Fictional Woods written by Umberto Eco and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this exhilarating book, we accompany Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples from fairy tales and Flaubert, Poe and Mickey Spillane, Eco draws us in with a novelist’s techniques, making us his collaborators in the creation of his text and in the investigation of some of fiction's most basic mechanisms.
Inventing Futurism
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Author : Christine Poggi
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009
Inventing Futurism written by Christine Poggi and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.
Sumario: Futurist velocities -- Folla/follia: futurism and the crowd -- Umberto Boccioni's The city rises: picturing the futurist metropolis -- Photogenic abstraction: Giacomo Balla's iridescent interpenetrations -- Dreams of metallized flesh: futurism and the masculine body -- Futurist love, luxury, and lust -- Return of the repressed: vicissitudes of the futurist machine -- Aesthetics under fascism.