by Umberto Eco · GRASSET · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246714415
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«À reculons comme une écrevisse» is the philosophical and historical essay by Umberto Eco, published by Grasset in paperback (421 pages, in French).
Umberto Eco analyses the early years of the third millennium in articles and interventions from 2000 to 2005. 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and media populism serve to show that the world is moving backwards and reviving conflicts thought to have been overcome. Eco invites us to halt this regression.
The subtitle of the French edition is «Guerres chaudes et populisme médiatique»; the original Italian title is «A passo di gambero. Guerre calde e populismo mediatico» (2006).
Recommended for readers of political essays and contemporary history interested in social criticism and media populism.
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement.
