New Drug: The Anglo-American bookstore in the center of Rome (near Piazza di Spagna) that can order books from just about anywhere.
Rai TV controversy regarding Pope Pius XII has animated alot of souls.
"What would Jesus have done?" asks Daniel Goldhagen at one point in this sustained diatribe against Catholic complicity in the genocide of the Jews. His own answer is clear: Jesus preached a faith of goodness and tolerance, and would have openly condemned the persecution of the Jews. The whole thrust of the argument of this book is to expose Christianity as a humbug. On the one hand a religion of love and brotherhood, on the other a political institution willing to turn a blind eye to mass murder when it suited it.
Harris is known for ground-breaking books on Roman imperialism and on literacy in the ancient world. His new book, a vastly ambitious attempt to cover nearly every aspect of anger in antiquity from Homer to early Christianity, breaks fresh ground again. Despite a somewhat rambling organisation and quirky remarks like the one just quoted (what's the evidence for neolithic views on revenge?), it is full of interest. Harris's only serious omission is anger in the context of war. The ancients had much to say about anger both as a major cause of war, including civil war, and as a potent factor in the fighting. Harris's neglect of the military aspects of his subject (just two brief entries in the index under 'war, warfare') is a surprising lapse.
Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) ....This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism
FASCISTS VISIONS
The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics
ASPECTS OF THE AESTHETICS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Technoscience and the Avant-Garde
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