Season 11 · 19 Oct 2022"Speech is the best and the worst of things" (Aesop)- 35:15Cited in the question among proponents of a culturalist approach to fascism.
Umberto Eco
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Who is this?Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) 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. […]
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Season 11 · 19 Oct 2022"Speech is the best and the worst of things" (Aesop)