Serendipities : language & lunacy / Umberto Eco ; translated by William Weaver.
Serendipities : language & lunacy / Umberto Eco ; translated by William Weaver.
Serendipities : language & lunacy / Umberto Eco ; translated by William Weaver.
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New York : Columbia University Press, c1998.
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T0383502
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English
Italian
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Physical content
ix, 129 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The Force of Falsity -- 2. Languages in Paradise -- 3. From Marco Polo to Leibniz: Stones of Intellectual Misunderstandings -- 4. The Language of the Austral Land -- 5. The Linguistics of Joseph De Maistre.
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Publisher
New York : Columbia University Press, c1998.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c1998.
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Summary
Umberto Eco's 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. Exploring the "Force of the False," Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumpt...
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Serendipities : language & lunacy / Umberto Eco ; translated by William Weaver.
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Italian Academy lectures.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-119) and index.
Transferred from N401/92.
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c1998.
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T0383502
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0297643258
9780231111348
0231111347
9780297643258
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401
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991002163259702626
