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Paru en Italie en 1997 dans un volume d’essais intitulé Cinq questions de morale, traduit chez Grasset en 2000, Reconnaître le fascisme d’Umberto Eco est un texte d’une extrême actualité : le témoignage lucide et terrible d’un des plus grands intellectuels du XXe siècle, qui a grandi dans l’Italie de Mussolini. Quatorze. Tel est le nombre des caractéristiques qui permettent de déterminer si une idéologie, un mouvement, une société sont fascistes, selon Umberto Eco. Il y a les plus évidentes : la haine de la culture, l’obsession du complot, le refus de l’étranger. D’autres, plus insidieuses, bénignes en apparence, aboutissent au même résultat si l’on n’y prend garde : la peur du langage complexe, l’idée d’un peuple doté d’une volonté propre, le fait de considérer les désaccords comme des trahisons. Les sociétés démocratiques sont-elles à l’abri d’un retour du fascisme ? Non, dit Umberto Eco, qui nous met en garde contre le masque innocent que prendra le fascisme pour revenir au pouvoir. « Ce serait tellement plus confortable si quelqu'un s'avançait sur la scène du monde pour dire : "Je veux rouvrir Auschwitz, je veux que les chemises noires reviennent parader dans les rues italiennes !" Hélas, la vie n’est pas aussi simple. » Les clefs pour débusquer et combattre une idéologie mortifère.
First publish date: 2020
Authors: Umberto Eco
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