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On the Shoulders of Giants
Author
Title
On the Shoulders of Giants / Umberto Eco.
ISBN
9780674242265
Publication
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource (288 p.)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
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Summary
On the Shoulders of Giants collects previously unpublished essays from the last fifteen years of Umberto Eco's life. With humor and erudition, one of the great contemporary thinkers takes on the roots of Western culture, the origin of language, the nature of beauty and ugliness, the imperfections of art, and the lure of mysteries.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2019.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 17, 2022
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Publisher's Note
1. On the Shoulders of Giants
2. Beauty
3. Ugliness
4. The Absolute and the Relative
5. Beautiful Flame
6. The Invisible
7. Paradoxes and Aphorisms
8. Untruths, Lies, Falsifications
9. On Some Forms of Imperfection in Art
10. Some Revelations on Secrecy
11. Conspiracy
12. Representations of the Sacred
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