This book provides a philosophical overview of Umberto Eco’s historical and cultural development as a unique, internationally recognized public intellectual who communicates his ideas to both an academic and a popular audience. It describes Eco’s intellectual development from his childhood during World War II and student involvement as a Catholic youth activist and scholar of the Middle Ages, to his early writings on the ‘openness’ of modern works such as Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Merrell also explores Eco’s pioneering role in semiotics and his later career as a novelist.
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Table des matières
1. The Intermediate Thinker.- 2. The Intellectual Species.- 3. A Medievalist in Hibernation.- 4. The Exiled Heretic.- 5. The Art of Adventure: Joyce, Pareyson, and the Open Work.- 6. The Gruppo 63 and the Counter-Culture Movement.- 7. The Aesthetic Worlds of Superman and Charlie Brown.- 8. The Semiotic Species: A Grand Unified Theory of Culture.- 9. The Ethics of Interpretation and the Model Reader.- 10. Travels in the Fictional Labyrinth.A propos de l’auteur
Douglass Merrell completed his Ph D in in History on Umberto Eco at the University of Washington in 2000. He has subsequently taught in Rome, Venice, and Padua.
Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 296 ● ISBN 9783319547893 ● Taille du fichier 12.3 MB ● Maison d’édition Springer International Publishing ● Lieu Cham ● Pays CH ● Publié 2017 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 5197887 ● Protection contre la copie DRM sociale
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