Category: umberto eco

+ books, pauli murray, reading, umberto eco

Have You Read All of Those Books?

by Unknown's avatar

Ever since I started my graduate work in literature, I’d buy books whereever I could, typically haunting used book stores, thirft stores, or just ordering books online. I’d order books based off of other books. So, for example, when I read Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre last year, someone mentioned that Jean Rhys wrote a response, focusing on Bertha Mason. This led me to order Rhys’ Wide Saragosa … Read More Have You Read All of Those Books?

+

+ education, fascism, florida, history, nazi, ron desantis, umberto eco

Florida, Fascism, and the Past

by Unknown's avatar

In “Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt,” Umberto Eco lists out features of fascism and points out that “it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around us.” Traditionalism, the longing for a mythological past, looms larges as one of the defining features of fascism. This gazing backwards, immediately raises a wall to learning and … Read More Florida, Fascism, and the Past

Archive
Follow me on Twitter
Follow Us

Blog at WordPress.com.