Umberto Eco, Fascism and Tradition
Of fascist pigs and sacred cows: debunking political misreadings about the authority of Tradition in a time of rising authoritarianism.
Of fascist pigs and sacred cows: debunking political misreadings about the authority of Tradition in a time of rising authoritarianism.
The essay explores analogies between interpretation of the Homeric poems in the ancient Hellenic philosophical ‘paideia’ and that of the Qur’an in the Islamic tradition.
This essay on the poetry of Martin Lings regards it as the consummate disclosure of his spirituality: ‘His mysticism is the archetype, his poetry the symbol.’