Building the Enemy and Other Occasional Writings

Name: Building the Enemy and Other Occasional Writings
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Autor: Umberto Eco

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In Constructing the Enemy and Other Occasional Writings , a collection of essays on art and culture, Umberto Eco talks about our need to have—or, if necessary, invent—an enemy.

"Having an enemy is important not only to define our identity, but also to find the obstacle against which to measure our value system and demonstrate, in confrontation, our own worth. Therefore, when the enemy doesn't exist, we must create one," states Eco. The global situation of our time, marked by fierce political polarization, reveals how timely and inevitable it is to understand the mechanisms that lead people to constantly identify new adversaries.

In essays of extraordinary relevance, Umberto Eco reflects on our need to always have an enemy to attack in every situation: whether in the invectives of ancient oratories, in the brilliant literary digression that runs through the Iliad, in the James Bond novels, in witch hunts, in the war propaganda of the past, or in the populisms of the present.

Constructing the Enemy and Other Occasional Writings covers topics that Umberto Eco wrote and lectured on in his later years: the idea that every country needs an enemy—and, in its absence, must invent one; discussions of themes that inspired his early novels, leading us in the process to explore lost islands, mythical kingdoms, and the medieval world; indignant reviews of James Joyce's Ulysses and fascist journalists of the 1930s and 1940s; an analysis of Saint Thomas Aquinas's notions of the soul of the unborn; and many other topics, such as censorship, violence, and WikiLeaks.

ISBN	978-850-109-311-0
Tradutor	Eliana Aguiar
Altura	230 mm
Largura	155 mm
Profundidade	13 mm
Lançamento	24/05/2021
Páginas	240

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Sobre o autor

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco nasceu em Alexandria em 1932. Filósofo, medievalista, semiólogo, midiólogo, estreou na ficção em 1980 com O nome da rosa (Prêmio Strega 1981), seguido por O pêndulo de Foucault (1988), A ilha do dia anterior (1994), Baudolino (2000), A misteriosa chama da rainha Loana (2004), O cemitério de Praga (2010) e Número zero (2015). Dentre seus trabalhos de filosofia, crítica literária e semiótica, destacam-se Tratado geral de semiótica (1975), Os limites da interpretação (1990), Kant e o ornitorrinco (1997), Da árvore ao labirinto: estudos históricos sobre o signo e a interpretação (2007), Não contem com o fim do livro, com Jean-Claude Carrière (2009), Construir o inimigo e outros escritos ocasionais (2011) e Scritti sul pensiero medievale [Escritos sobre o pensamento medieval] (2012). Em 2004 publicou o volume ilustrado História da beleza, seguido em 2007 por História da feiura, em 2009 por Vertigem das listas e em 2013 por História das terras e lugares lendários. Reconhecido como um dos mais importantes escritores e pensadores do século XX, grande parte da sua obra se encontra publicada no Brasil pela Editora Record. O autor morreu em 2016.