(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Aug-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520204515)
A dozen essays from a July 1994 conference at the University of San Marino argue that a total shift to electronic information media would trigger wrenching social and cultural dislocations. Among their perspectives are the pragmatics of the new, fare...Loe edasi...
In Umberto Eco’s first novel, The Name of the Rose, Nicholas of Morimondo laments, “We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!” To which the protagonist, William of Baskerville, replies: “We are dwarfs, but dwarfs who...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Oct-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674240896)
On the Shoulders of Giants collects previously unpublished essays from the last fifteen years of Umberto Ecos life. With humor and erudition, one of the great contemporary thinkers takes on the roots of Western culture, the origin of language, the...Loe edasi...
This striking book shows the worlds most beautiful libraries through Candida Höfers mesmerizing photographs.No one photographs spaces quite like Candida Höfer and no one has captured better the majesty, stillness, a...Loe edasi...
Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval...Loe edasi...
This book provides a philosophical overview of Umberto Ecos historical and cultural development as a unique, internationally recognized public intellectual who communicates his ideas to both an academic and a popular audience. This book p...Loe edasi...
In this road map to the idea of beauty, the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucaults Pendulum journeys into the ever-changing concept of beauty from the ancient Greeks to today, dispelling preconceptions and concluding that in an...Loe edasi...
In a companion volume to his History of Beauty, the renowned philosopher and cultural critic analyzes our attraction to the gruesome, horrific, and repellant in visual culture and the arts, drawing on abundant examples of painting and sculptu...Loe edasi...
Umberto Eco, Caterina Mongiat Farina, Geoff Farina, Francesco Erspamer
Sari: The MIT Press
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Mar-2015, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262527132)
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italys most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977,...Loe edasi...
Historicizing Fiction/Fictionalizing History brings together two authors, Umberto Eco and Orhan Pamuk, not frequently studied in comparison....Loe edasi...
This book sheds light on the most philosophically interesting of contemporary objects: the cell phone. Where are you?--a question asked over cell phones myriad times each day--is arguably the most philosophical question of our age, given the transf...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9780823256150)
This book sheds light on the most philosophically interesting of contemporary objects: the cell phone. Where are you?--a question asked over cell phones myriad times each day--is arguably the most philosophical question of our age, given the transf...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jun-2014, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231111355)
Best-selling author Umberto Ecos latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the linguistics of the lunatic, stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exp...Loe edasi...
In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville is sent to investigate charges of heresy against Franciscan monks at a wealthy Italian abbey but finds his mission overshadowed by seven bizarre murders. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Feb-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674049185)
The way we create and organize knowledge is the theme of From the Tree to the Labyrinth, a major achievement by one of the worlds foremost thinkers on language and interpretation. Umberto Eco begins by arguing that our familiar system of c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jan-2014, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781781681695)
Allowing the reader to create the narrative, this unique love story, set in Milan during a disruption by Porta Ticinese protesters, has an infinite number of possible endings and each printed edition of the novel is ordered uniquely so that each read...Loe edasi...
There is a wealth of critical commentary on Umberto Eco in scholarly books and articles; this collection provides up-to-date and thought-provoking insights into topics that have attracted a great deal of attention in the past without repeating many o...Loe edasi...
Follows the controversial nineteenth-century story of a European world where violence and occult practices shaping key historical events are commonly linked by a solitary evil genius. The Prague Cemetery is the latest internation...Loe edasi...
Sumptuously illustrated and fascinatingly written - a vast store of wisdom on the nature of ugliness by one of our most celebrated contemporary thinkers....Loe edasi...
Sari: The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-May-2011, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674058699)
The author of The Name of the Rose discusses his theories on fiction, lending insight into how his own novels were created. Umberto Eco, author of The Name of the Rose, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Dec-2010, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781617030345)
The original essays gathered in this book make a beginning at exploring the cultural significance of The Name of the Rose in terms of its backgrounds and literary contexts. Ecos novel is examined in the light of several of the traditions f...Loe edasi...
Eli E. Sercarz, Umberto Eco, Franco Celada, N.Avrion Mitchison, Tomio Tada
Sari: Nato ASI Subseries H:
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Dec-2011, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, ISBN-13: 9783642731471)
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Semiotics of Cellular Communication in the Immune System held at Il Ciocco, Lucca, Italy, September 9-12, 1986 This volume contains the contributions to the workshop The Semiotics of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University College Dublin Press, ISBN-13: 9781910820025)
This new and expanded edition of Talking of Joyce focuses on James Joyces cultural ancestry - aesthetic and linguistic, in particular - and his Italian influences and connections. This volume brings to light fascinating aspects of Irelands mo...Loe edasi...
But who are they?HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance - including Ecos iconic essay Ur-Fascism, which lists the fourteen essential characteristics of fascism, and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Aug-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520204515)
A dozen essays from a July 1994 conference at the University of San Marino argue that a total shift to electronic information media would trigger wrenching social and cultural dislocations. Among their perspectives are the pragmatics of the new, fare...Loe edasi...
In Umberto Eco’s first novel, The Name of the Rose, Nicholas of Morimondo laments, “We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!” To which the protagonist, William of Baskerville, replies: “We are dwarfs, but dwarfs who...Loe edasi...
In Umberto Eco’s first novel, The Name of the Rose, Nicholas of Morimondo laments, “We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!” To which the protagonist, William of Baskerville, replies: “We are dwarfs, but dwarfs who...Loe edasi...
The final collection of essays from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture.In this collection of essays we find Umberto Eco’s pe...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Oct-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674240896)
On the Shoulders of Giants collects previously unpublished essays from the last fifteen years of Umberto Ecos life. With humor and erudition, one of the great contemporary thinkers takes on the roots of Western culture, the origin of language, the...Loe edasi...
This striking book shows the worlds most beautiful libraries through Candida Höfers mesmerizing photographs.No one photographs spaces quite like Candida Höfer and no one has captured better the majesty, stillness, a...Loe edasi...
Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. A celebrated essayist as well as novelist, in this, his last collection, he explores many aspects of the modern world with irrepressible curiosity and wisdom written in his uniquely ironic vo...Loe edasi...
Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval...Loe edasi...
Número Cero, de Umberto Eco, nos descubre la cara oscura del periodismo y la manera en que nuestra realidad está en manos de quienes construyen las noticias.«Los perdedores y los autodidactas siempre saben mucho m...Loe edasi...