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Serendipities : Language and Lunacy.
In a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, Eco shows us how serendipities--unanticipated truths--often spring from mistaken ideas. Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much smaller than it is, leading him to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
1998.
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| Colección: | Italian Academy lectures.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Force of Falsity
- 2. Languages in Paradise
- 3. From Marco Polo to Leibniz: Stories of Intellectual Misunderstandings
- 4. The Language of the Austral Land
- 5. The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre
- Notes
- Index.