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On the Shoulders of Giants collects previously unpublished essays from the last 15 years of Eco's life.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.
A posthumous collection of essays by internationally renowned essayist, literary critic, philosopher, and author of The Name of the Rose--"one of the most influential thinkers of our time" (Los Angeles Times)In his final collection of works, celebrated essayist and novelist Umberto Eco observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in ideological values, the crises in politics, and the unbridled individualism that have become the backdrop of our lives--a "liquid" society in which it's not easy to find a polestar, though stars and starlets abound. In these pieces, written for his regular column in L'Espresso magazine, Eco brings his dazzling erudition and keen sense of the everyday to bear on topics such as popular culture and politics, being seen, conspiracies, the old and the young, new technologies, mass media, racism, and good manners. It is a final gift to his readers--astute, witty, and illuminating.
Umberto Eco, international bestselling novelist and leading literary theorist, here brings together these two roles in a provocative discussion of the vexed question of literary interpretation. The limits of interpretation - what a text can actually be said to mean - are of double interest to a semiotician whose own novels' intriguing complexity has provoked his readers into intense speculation as to their meaning. Eco's illuminating and frequently hilarious discussion ranges from Dante to The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum to Chomsky and Derrida, and bears all the hallmarks of his inimitable personal style. Three of the world's leading figures in philosophy, literary theory and criticism take up the challenge of entering into debate with Eco on the question of interpretation. Richard Rorty, Jonathan Culler and Christine Brooke-Rose each offer a distinctive perspective on this contentious topic, contributing to a unique exchange of ideas between some of the foremost and most exciting theorists in the field.
In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false" to reflections on the experimental writing of Borges and Joyce, Eco's luminous intelligence and encyclopedic knowledge are on dazzling display throughout. And when he reveals his own ambitions and superstitions, his authorial anxieties and fears, one feels like a secret sharer in the garden of literature to which he so often alludes. Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that have made Eco one of the world's leading writers.
"As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE, as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance."THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEThree clever book editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe, decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires, they think they are creating a long lazy game--until the game starts taking over....Here is an incredible journey of thought and history, memory and fantasy, a tour de force as enthralling as anything Umberto Eco--or indeed anyone--has ever devised.
It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story.
Dette er en flergangsbog, der kan anvendes som et supplement til danskundervisningen på FVU.TilgangLette klassikere er en serie læsepædagogisk bearbejdede udgaver af kendte og populære bøger. Serien henvender sig til læsesvage unge og voksne, der finder originaludgaverne uoverkommelige eller svære at læse, men som gerne vil have en god læseoplevelse.IndholdMunken William er tegntyder og sporhund. Han tager sin elev, novicen Adso, med til et kloster i Norditalien i det Herrens år 1327. En ung munk er død under mystiske omstændigheder, og de to vil forsøge at løse mysteriet. Mens de efterforsker dødsfaldet, dør flere munke i klosteret dag for dag. Munkene er opskræmte med god grund.Efterforskningen fører William og Adso igennem en labyrint af sælsomme spor, som leder dem til klosterets inderste hemmeligheder. Hvad er det, biblioteket gemmer, siden det bliver så godt bevogtet? Hvilken viden havde de døde munke, og hvilken rolle har den gamle, blinde mand?Jo dybere William og Adso graver, jo farligere bliver det for dem. En historie om synd, straf og tilgivelse, om farlig litteratur og den forbudte latter.Bearbejdet af Leena Bækdal.DownloadsLæs uddrag
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, medieval, and modern modes of thought, he offers here a brilliant illustration of his longstanding argument that problems of interpretation can be solved only in historical context.
1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured by local partisans and shot in a summary execution. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed writer picking up hack work, is offered a fee he can't refuse to ghost-write a memoir.
Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres.
The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia.
... the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris."e; -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism... draws on philosophy, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and aesthetics and refers to a wide range of scholarship... raises many fascinating questions."e; -Language in Society... a major contribution to the field of semiotic studies."e; -Robert Scholes, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism... the most significant text on the subject published in the English language that I know of."e; -Arthur Asa Berger, Journal of CommunicationEco's treatment demonstrates his mastery of the field of semiotics. It focuses on the twin problems of the doctrine of signs-communication and signification-and offers a highly original theory of sign production, including a carefully wrought typology of signs and modes of production.
Munken William er tegntyder og sporhund. Han tager sin elev, novicen Adso, med til et kloster i Norditalien i det Herrens år 1327. En ung munk er død under mystiske omstændigheder, og de to vil forsøge at løse mysteriet. Mens de efterforsker dødsfaldet, dør flere munke i klosteret dag for dag. Munkene er opskræmte med god grund.Efterforskningen fører William og Adso igennem en labyrint af sælsomme spor, som leder dem til klosterets inderste hemmeligheder. Hvad er det, biblioteket gemmer, siden det bliver så godt bevogtet? Hvilken viden havde de døde munke, og hvilken rolle har den gamle, blinde mand?Jo dybere William og Adso graver, jo farligere bliver det for dem. En historie om synd, straf og tilgivelse, om farlig litteratur og den forbudte latter.Easy reader udgave af den oprindelige roman i serien Lette klassikere.
Munken William er tegntyder og sporhund. Han tager sin elev, novicen Adso, med til et kloster i Norditalien i det Herrens år 1327. En ung munk er død under mystiske omstændigheder, og de to vil forsøge at løse mysteriet. Mens de efterforsker dødsfaldet, dør flere munke i klosteret dag for dag. Munkene er opskræmte med god grund.Efterforskningen fører William og Adso igennem en labyrint af sælsomme spor, som leder dem til klosterets inderste hemmeligheder. Hvad er det, biblioteket gemmer, siden det bliver så godt bevogtet? Hvilken viden havde de døde munke, og hvilken rolle har den gamle, blinde mand?Jo dybere William og Adso graver, jo farligere bliver det for dem. En historie om synd, straf og tilgivelse, om farlig litteratur og den forbudte latter.Easy reader udgave af den oprindelige roman i serien Lette klassikere.
Focuses on what the author once called 'the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation' - that is, the belief that many interpreters have gone too far in their domination of texts, thereby destroying meaning and the basis for communication. This book begins with four theoretical essays dealing with various aspects of interpretive theory.
In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures.
In this collection of nine essays, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between 'open' and 'closed' texts, between a work of art that actively involves the 'addressee' in its production and one that holds the 'addressee' at bay and seeks to evoke a limited and predetermined response. He investigates the contributions of contemporary semantics to the study of narrative, and connects the modalities of textual interpretation with the problem of possible worlds.
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