Turning Back The Clock

Hot Wars and Media Populism

Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen

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English

Vintage
03 November 2008

Literary essays; Society & Social Sciences

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.

By: Umberto Eco
Translated by: Alastair McEwen
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 266g
ISBN: 9780099503682
ISBN 10: 0099503689
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 03 November 2008
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Turning Back The Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism

Clever, fluent pieces...a human, sophisticated and wise book Sunday Times Engaging, contrarian thesis...lively, ironic intelligence The Times Another collection of nimble, teasing, brilliant and infuriating little essays and essaylets Guardian Eco's greatest virtue might be said to lie in his ability to clarify the exact nature of our present perplexities. Eco is, on the whole, lucid, logical and always firmly on the side of civilisation TLS