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Eco, On Ugliness
In the mold of his acclaimed History of Beauty, renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco’s On Ugliness is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant …
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How we create and organize knowledge is the theme of this major achievement by Umberto Eco. Demonstrating once again his inimitable ability to bridge ancient, …
post Continue Reading →Eco, The Infinity of Lists
In the history of Western culture we find lists of saints, ranks of soldiers, catalogues of grotesque creatures or medicinal plants, and hordes …
post Continue Reading →Eco, Serendipities Language & Lunacy
Serendipities is a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, a brilliant exposition of how unanticipated truths often spring from false ideas. …
post Continue Reading →Eco, How to Write a Thesis
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy’s most celebrated intellectuals, a …
post Continue Reading →Eco, The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose (Italian: Il nome della rosa) is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a …
post Continue Reading →Eco, On Literature
In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks “to understand the chemistry of …
post Continue Reading →Eco, On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea
Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines …
post Continue Reading →Eco, The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas
The well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the unsuspected richness, breadth, complexity, and originality …
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“What to transmit? Knowledge? It is already available and objectivized on the web. Transmit it to everyone? Knowledge is already accessible to everyone. How to …
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