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Umberto Eco's fourteen keys to recognizing fascism: an urgent manifesto. "Umberto Eco changed the way we look at books: essential, small, fragile, sometimes criminal, almost always salvific. A master who taught us to intertwine wisdom and play with his sharp and playful style,...
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Against fascism
Umberto Eco's fourteen keys to recognizing fascism: an urgent manifesto. "Umberto Eco changed the way we look at books: essential, small, fragile, sometimes criminal, almost always salvific. A master who taught us to intertwine wisdom and play with his sharp and playful style, with his astonishing inventiveness and accurate lucidity." "One of the most influential thinkers of our time." "Eternal fascism still surrounds us, even if it wears plain clothes. It can return at any moment, even disguised in the most innocuous forms. Our duty is to detect it, unmask it, and loudly denounce each of its deeds." In this lecture given to students at an American university in 1995, Umberto Eco warned against the long shadow of a phenomenon that is not restricted to the political sphere nor has an expiration date, because behind a regime and an ideology there is always a certain way of thinking and feeling, a cultural substratum that can be the germ of a new fascist wave. The great thinker of our time, the one who taught us to "reflect before thinking," offers us fourteen keys to recognizing the ghost of "eternal fascism" and provides us with tools so that the present and the future do not resemble our worst past. Critics have said... "An invitation to memory, so that we never take anything for granted." "Very convincing and with the kind of flashes of intelligence and knowledge that readers expect from one of Italy's most brilliant minds." "Eco mixes personal memories of his youth under the fascist regime and structurally analyzes the fourteen archetypes of primitive and eternal fascism." "It fits in a jacket pocket, has 61 pages and enough concreteness to work like an ibuprofen." "Sixty-four easy-to-read pages that remind us that fascism has more than one face and can re-emerge in other guises." "Umberto Eco suggests that there is an eternal fascism whose characteristics, though seemingly contradictory or innocent, still exist among us." "Eco explains the inseparable link between freedom and Liberation (from fascism)." "An inexhaustible, voracious genius, who constantly builds and deconstructs, with dazzling and humorous intelligence when needed." "An urgent manifesto, and I would add necessary, in the present time we live in." |
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