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Umberto Eco's chilling warning: 14 signs of fascism
Umberto Eco's 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism" outlines 14 common features of fascism based on his experience growing up as a boy in ...
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Umberto Eco’s Lessons on Ur-Fascism
“Ur-Fascism,” wrote the Italian thinker Umberto Eco, derives from individual or social frustration. That is why one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a ...
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Umberto Eco: The birth of ethics
With Trump now in office, state and local governments in the USA must push tech companies to protect women’s private data I am of the firm belief that even those who do not have faith in a personal ...
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Harvard Law Expert Puts Trump "Close Enough" to "9 or 17 Points That Define Fascism"
In his 1995 essay ‘Ur-Fascism,’ novelist Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose) — who grew up in Mussolini’s fascist regime in ...
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Perspectives — a gripping murder-mystery in Medici Florence
He is a late son of the postmodernist tradition that gave birth to writers such as Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino. He shares with them a predilection for intertextual play, mixing genres and ...