A compact collection of essays in which Umberto Eco turns his attention to ethics, responsibility, and public life in the late twentieth century. Ranging across war, media, fascism, migration, and intellectual duty, these pieces are written for a general audience but carry Eco’s characteristic precision and historical depth.

Originally delivered as lectures and public interventions, Five Moral Pieces shows Eco working as a civic thinker rather than a semiotician: clear, direct, and concerned with how ideas translate into action. Brief but sharp, and still uncomfortably relevant.

Hardcover first edition.