James Walton

It’s a dull world in which children don’t challenge their parents

From earliest times, says Umberto Eco, every generation has rejected the ideas of their fathers — until our sharing, digital age’s ‘orgy of tolerance’

issue 09 November 2019
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  • On the Shoulders of Giants

    Umberto Eco, translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen

    Harvill Secker, pp. 413, £30

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