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“A scintillating collection of writings by one of the most influential thinkers of our times.” —Los Angeles Times
With the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco entertains and intrigues once again, this time on subjects ranging…
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Umberto Eco is a prophet for the rising the epistemological break that we are approaching.
In this collection of essays, he anticipates how a rising dark age forces progressive scientific circles to retreat into secret monasteries to survive and to preserve valid older knowledge. As a historian specialized in the Middle Ages, he knows what he talks about.
But he also provides a revolution in the style and content of what he writes: Short essays that connect everyday life experiences of the young generation of the Sixties with his art of deriving theoretical – even witty - abstractions. This is…
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