Serendipities: Language & Lunacy: Language and Lunacy - Rilegato

Eco, Umberto; Weaver, William

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ISBN 10: 0231111347 ISBN 13: 9780231111348

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 1998

Riassunto

A best-selling author and world-renowned scholar on language explores the history of thought to find "serendipities," startling moments of insight and truth that can arise from mistakes, showing how some misinterpretations can lead to knowledge while others impede knowledge's development. UP.

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L'autore:

Umberto Eco is the author of five best-selling novels and numerous collections of essays. He is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and lives in Italy.

Product Description:

Serendipities is a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, a brilliant exposition of how unanticipated truths often spring from false ideas. From Leibniz's belief that the I Ching illustrated the principles of calculus to Marco Polo's mistaking a rhinoceros for a unicorn, Umberto Eco offers a dazzling tour of intellectual history, illuminating the ways in which we project the familiar onto the strange to make sense of the world. Uncovering layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, Eco offers with wit and clarity such instances as Columbus's voyage to the New World, the fictions that grew around the Rosicrucians and Knights Templar, and the linguistic endeavors to recreate the language of Babel, to show how serendipities can evolve out of mistakes. With erudition, anecdotes, and scholarly rigor, this new collection of essays is sure to entertain and enlighten any reader with a passion for the curious history of languages and ideas. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new; 129 pages; Description: ix, 129 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Language and languages --Philosophy --Intercultural communication

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• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0231111347
• ISBN 13: 9780231111348
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 129