Turning Back the Clock
Author(s): Umberto Eco
Turning Back the Clock is a brilliant collection of essays by one of the leading intellectuals of our time. 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.
General Information
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- : Vintage
- : Vintage
- : 0.258
- : 01 September 2008
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 September 2008
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Umberto Eco
- : Paperback
- : 384
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Turning Back the Clock is a brilliant collection of essays by one of the leading intellectuals of our time.
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"
Umberto Eco is the author of four bestselling novels, The Name of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Baudolino and, most recently, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. His collections of essays include Five Moral Pieces, Kant and the Platypus, Serendipities, Travels In Hyperreality, and How To Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays. He is also the author of On Beauty. A Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna, Umberto Eco lives in Italy.
