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On the Shoulders of Giants

On the Shoulders of Giants collects previously unpublished essays from the last fifteen years of Umberto Eco's life.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 imperfectio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eco, Umberto (Autor)
Otros Autores: McEwen, Alastair (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • On the shoulders of giants
  • Beauty
  • Ugliness
  • The absolute and the relative
  • Beautiful flame
  • The invisible
  • Paradoxes and aphorisms
  • Untruths, lies, falsifications
  • On some forms of imperfection in art
  • Some revelations on secrecy
  • Conspiracy
  • Representations of the sacred