Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature... this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory. --Times Literary Supplement
Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature... this collection...
'Turning Back the Clock' is a collection of essays by one of the leading intellectuals of our time. With his customary sharpness and wit, Eco explains the tragic steps backwards that have been taken since the end of the last millennium.
'Turning Back the Clock' is a collection of essays by one of the leading intellectuals of our time. With his customary sharpness and wit, Eco explains...
Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this title presents a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, as well as a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders, and a compendium of heretical movements.
Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this title presents a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, as well as a chronicle of the 14th ...
The way we create and organize knowledge is the theme of From the Tree to the Labyrinth, a major achievement by one of the world's foremost thinkers on language and interpretation. Umberto Eco begins by arguing that our familiar system of classification by genus and species derives from the Neo-Platonist idea of a "tree of knowledge." He then moves to the idea of the dictionary, which--like a tree whose trunk anchors a great hierarchy of branching categories--orders knowledge into a matrix of definitions. In Eco's view, though, the dictionary is too rigid: it turns knowledge into a...
The way we create and organize knowledge is the theme of From the Tree to the Labyrinth, a major achievement by one of the world's foremost ...
Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these confessions, the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist, and explores their fruitful conjunction. He begins by exploring the boundary between fiction and nonfiction--playfully, seriously, brilliantly roaming across this frontier. Good nonfiction, he believes, is crafted like a whodunnit, and a skilled novelist builds precisely detailed worlds through observation and research. Taking us on a tour of his own...
Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these confessions, the author, now in his late seve...
