From the Tree to the Labyrinth
Historical Studies on the Sign and Interpretation
Published on 24. February 2014
640 pages
978-0-674-72816-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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English
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Cambridge, MA; London
United States
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Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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978-0-674-72816-5 (9780674728165)
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Persons
Eco Umberto :
Umberto Eco is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bologna and is the author of many books, including Foucault's Pendulum.Oldcorn Anthony :
Anthony Oldcorn is Professor Emeritus of Italian Studies at Brown University.
Umberto Eco is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bologna and is the author of many books, including Foucault's Pendulum.Oldcorn Anthony :
Anthony Oldcorn is Professor Emeritus of Italian Studies at Brown University.
Content
Contents Introduction 1. From the Tree to the Labyrinth 2. Metaphor as Knowledge:Aristotle's Medieval (Mis)Fortunes 3. From Metaphor to Analogia Entis 4. The Dog That Barked (and Other Zoosemiotic Archaeologies) 5. Fakes and Forgeries in the Middle Ages 6. Jottings on Beatus of Liebana 7. Dante between Modistae and Kabbalah 8. The Use and Interpretation of Medieval Texts 9. Toward a History of Denotation 10. On Llull, Pico, and Llullism 11. The Language of the Austral Land 12. The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre 13. On the Silence of Kant 14. Natural Semiosis and the Word in Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed (I promessi sposi) 15. The Threshold and the Infinite: Peirce and Primary Iconism 16. The Definitions in Croce's Aesthetic 17. Five Senses of the Word "Semantics," from Breal to the Present Day 18. Weak Thought versus the Limits of Interpretation References Index
