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Reading the book I’m tempted to transfer the controversies underpinning the plot into contemporary economic and philosophical terms. The commodity value of items produced for spiritual veneration, notions of free-will as opposed to the recognition of necessity. Eco confirms me in the view that we remain in an era that is an extension of medieavalism, which is yet to attain a renaissance. The obsessions of the book’s context are our those of our own era: eternal truth and individual interpretation, art and nature, determinism and free will, spirituality and religion.The setting of the book, at the cuspe of feudalism and capitalism, is our own, on the cuspe of pre-history and the real history of humanity. Truth is still emerging from the facts.
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