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 aim of this essay is to look beyond modernist conceptions of politics, rooted in a materialistic view of reality that reifies the world and deifies man, and to propose in their stead a principled basis that transcends both reductive and relativistic conceptions.