Name: misreadings
SKU: 1545761
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Author: Eco, Umberto ; Weaver, William
ISBN: 9780156607520

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Author

Umberto Eco

Translated by

William Weaver

Publisher

Harpervia

Language

English

Pages

180

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.2x12.1x1.7 cm

Weight

0.15 kg.

ISBN

0156607522

ISBN13

9780156607520

Synopsis "misreadings"

Satirical essays in which Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual and makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde. "A scintillating collection of writings" (Los Angeles Times). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Umberto Eco

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Umberto Eco (Alessandria, January 5, 1932-Milan, February 19, 2016) was an Italian semiotician, philosopher, and writer, author of numerous essays on semiotics, aesthetics, linguistics, and philosophy, as well as several novels, including The Name of the Rose. Umberto Eco was a renowned atheist, very interested in the topic of religion.

In 2016, From Stupidity to Insanity, a posthumous compilation book of articles published in the press by Umberto Eco, selected by Eco himself before his death, was published.

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