Umberto Eco: 205 books

“Underscores the writer’s profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes . . . Eco’s pleasure in such explorations is obvious and contagious.” — Booklist Inventing the Enemy covers a wide range of topics on which Eco has written and lectured over the...

Questo volume rappresenta una delle pietre miliari del percorso filosofico di Umberto Eco e una delle pietre miliari della riflessione semiotica internazionale tout court. Eco torna alla filosofia (ammesso che mai se ne sia distaccato), per confrontarsi soprattutto con l’ontologia e le scienze cognitive...

How do we know a cat is a cat . . . and why do we call it a cat? An “intriguing and often fascinating” look at words, perceptions, and the relationship between them (Newark Star-Ledger). In Kant and the Platypus, the renowned semiotician, philosopher, and bestselling author of The Name...

Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in ideological values, the crises in politics, and the...

In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false" to reflections on the experimental writing of Borges...

A “scintillating collection” of essays on Disneyland, medieval times, and much more, from the author of Foucault’s Pendulum (Los Angeles Times). Collected here are some of Umberto Eco’s finest popular essays, recording the incisive and surprisingly entertaining observations of his restless...

In this book Umberto Eco argues that translation is not about comparing two languages, but about the interpretation of a text in two different languages, thus involving a shift between cultures. An author whose works have appeared in many languages, Eco is also the translator of Gérard de Nerval's...

Per la prima volta insieme, tutti gli scritti che Umberto Eco ha dedicato alla televisione: al suo linguaggio, alle forme di comunicazione che mette in gioco, alle tecnologie che le sostengono, all’immaginario che produce, ai suoi esiti culturali, estetici, etici, educativi e, soprattutto, politici....

Un percorso appassionante nella storia del pensiero filosofico dall'Ottocento (da Hegel a Marx, da Schopenhauer a Nietzsche) alla filosofia novecentesca e alla pluralità delle sue grandi tradizioni (dal neokantismo alla fenomenologia, dallo storicismo alla filosofia analitica, dal neoidealismo all'esistenzialismo,...

Piezas que nacieron de un encargo o del puro divertimento donde Umberto Eco habla de los temas más variados, paseando con desenvoltura desde la literatura a la política o la astronomía, y donde cada escrito se convierte en una pequeña lección para el que lo lee. El libro arranca con el...

“Impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays on topics from cell phones to librarians, by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum (The Atlantic Monthly). A cosmopolitan curmudgeon the Los Angeles Times called “the Andy Rooney of academia”—known for both...

From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation. 'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic...

Drie redacteuren van een uitgeverij in Milaan raken door manuscripten die zij onder ogen krijgen onafwendbaar verstrikt in de gedachte dat er iets onvoorstelbaars gaande is op deze wereld. In een tijd waarin de ratio en de automatisering hun triomfen vieren, beginnen zij verbanden te leggen tussen...

Antología de los artículos publicados por Umberto Eco entre comienzos de 2000 y finales de 2005. A paso de cangrejo es como parece caminar la historia en este nuevo milenio. Tras el 11 de septiembre la humanidad entró en una peligrosa regresión. Volvieron los viejos conflictos territoriales,...