Recognizing fascism when you see it

In his conference at Columbia University on April 25, 1995 Umberto Eco not only engaged in a biographical exercise about his first ten years, spent in the world of Italian fascism, and about his discovery of the word « Liberty » at the time of the Liberation. He also attempted to define fascism, a regime of which the Italian example gives the general appearance but which it does not summarize. Grasset, the French publishing house, has just reissued the text of this conference. Lire plus