Name: On the Shoulders of Giants (in English)
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Author: Eco, Umberto ; McEwen, Alastair
ISBN: 9780674240896

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Umberto Eco

Translated by

Alastair McEwen

Publisher

Belknap Press

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

20.6 x 14.2 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9780674240896

Synopsis "On the Shoulders of Giants (in English)"

A posthumous collection of essays by one of our greatest contemporary thinkers that provides a towering vision of Western culture. In Umberto Eco's first novel, The Name of the Rose, Nicholas of Morimondo laments, "We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!" To which the protagonist, William of Baskerville, replies: "We are dwarfs, but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they." On the Shoulders of Giants is a collection of essays based on lectures Eco famously delivered at the Milanesiana Festival in Milan over the last fifteen years of his life. Previously unpublished, the essays explore themes he returned to again and again in his writing: the roots of Western culture and the origin of language, the nature of beauty and ugliness, the potency of conspiracies, the lure of mysteries, and the imperfections of art. Eco examines the dynamics of creativity and considers how every act of innovation occurs in conversation with a superior ancestor. In these playful, witty, and breathtakingly erudite essays, we encounter an intellectual who reads comic strips, reflects on Heraclitus, Dante, and Rimbaud, listens to Carla Bruni, and watches Casablanca while thinking about Proust. On the Shoulders of Giants reveals both the humor and the colossal knowledge of a contemporary giant.

Umberto Eco

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"Umberto Eco (Alessandria, 5 de enero de 1932-Milán, 19 de febrero de 2016)1fue un semiólogo, filósofo y escritor italiano, autor de numerosos ensayos sobre semiótica, estética, lingüística y filosofía, así como de varias novelas, entre ellas El nombre de la rosa. Umberto Eco fue un reconocido ateo, muy interesado en el tema de la religión.

En 2016 se publicó De la estupidez a la locura, libro póstumo recopilatorio de artículos publicados en prensa por Umberto Eco, seleccionados por el mismo Eco antes de su fallecimiento."

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