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About Chronicles Of A Liquid Society
About the Author UMBERTO ECO (1932–2016) was the author of numerous essay collections and seven novels, including The Name of the Rose,The Prague Cemetery, and Inventing the Enemy. He received Italy’s highest literary award, the Premio Strega, was named a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by the French government, and was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Product Description A posthumous collection of essays by internationally renowned essayist, literary critic, philosopher, and author of The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco. In this, Umberto Eco’s final collection of works, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in ideological values, the crises in politics, and the unbridled individualism that have become the backdrop of our lives―a “liquid” society in which it’s not easy to find a polestar, though stars and starlets abound. In these pieces, written for his regular column in L’Espresso magazine, Eco brings his dazzling erudition and keen sense of the everyday to bear on topics such as popular culture and politics, being seen, conspiracies, the old and the young, new technologies, mass media, racism, and good manners. It is a final gift to his readers―astute, witty, and illuminating. “A swan song from one of Europe’s great intellectuals . . . [Eco] entertains with his intellect, humor, and insatiable curiosity.”―Kirkus Reviews “An intelligent, intriguing, and often hilariously incisive set of observations on contemporary follies and changing mores.”―Publishers Weekly “Chronicles of a Liquid Society is a wonderful reminder of a great writer, thinker, and human being.”―Toronto Star Review "Eco’s famously ironic voice, well preserved in Richard Dixon’s translation, is...penetrating...The issues Eco addresses are so enormous in their scale they seem insurmountable, yet his measured, erudite commentary assures you that they can be understood and therefore resolved."—FINANCIAL TIMES “A remarkable collection, intellectually rigorous but accessible, thought-provoking but frequently funny, historically immersed but preternaturally aware of the world outside…Chronicles of a Liquid Society, for all of its weight and intellectual significance, is full of…small self-aware glimpses that feel like the bemused twinkling of an eye…As the final book to directly bear [Eco’s] hand, Chronicles of a Liquid Society is a wonderful reminder of a great writer, thinker, and human being.”—THE TORONTO STAR “Eco is a critical thinker, a philosopher and theorist, but he writes with refreshing clarity…That [he] can be precise in his writing while respecting complexity and resisting dogmatism is a testament to his intellect… Though critiquing an increasingly unpredictable society, Eco's last reflections are strangely forward-looking and sensible. Chronicles of a Liquid Society forms a map of sorts with which to navigate the modern world.”—SHELF AWARENESS ““What unifies this collection is Eco's understanding…We are not reading this book for novelty, but for conversation, for the personality and charitable understanding of an elder interested in everything, even the things he finds worrying.”—WASHINGTON FREE BEACON Quick-takes propelled by deep reflection and subtle humor.”—PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE "A swan song from one of Europe's great intellectuals. After publishing numerous novels, criticism, essays, and so much more, Eco died in 2016 at the age of 84. Like a few others before him, including Edmund Wilson and Lionel Trilling, among others, Eco proved that one could write for many audiences...There's a distinct Italian lean to these pieces, so some travel better than others, but it's not so much the information they convey as much as the intellect and thought processes of the conveyor...Eco entertains with his intellect, humor, and insatiable curiosity...There's much here to
