by Umberto Eco · Debolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483465677
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In 'A paso de cangrejo' ('Walking Backwards'), Umberto Eco invites us to reflect on the regression that contemporary society seems to be experiencing. After 9/11, the author analyzes how scientific and democratic advances are threatened by conflicts, the resurgence of old wars, and the rise of racism. Eco encourages us to question the present and the future, addressing topics such as media manipulation, consumerism, and international politics, offering a lucid and combative analysis of the world around us.
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.
