Turning Back the Clock

Umberto Eco

RRP: £9.99

Publisher: VINTAGE

Publication Date : 04/09/2008

Paperback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

A collection of essays from one of the leading intellectuals of our time. History is repeating, and Eco proposes that if we don't march forward, we should at least stop marching backwards. 'Clever, fluent pieces...a human, sophisticated and wise book' "The Sunday Times"

Publisher's description:

The ghost of the Yellow Peril has been resurrected, the nineteenth-century anti-Darwin debate has been reopened, and 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. This book proposes that we cease marching backwards.

ISBN: 9780099503682