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From the Tree to the Labyrinth
Historical Studies on the Sign and Interpretation
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2014
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How we create and organize knowledge is the theme of this major achievement by Umberto Eco. Demonstrating once again his inimitable ability to bridge ancient, medieval, and modern modes of thought, he offers here a brilliant illustration of his longstanding argument that problems of interpretation can be solved only in historical context.
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Eco Umberto :
Umberto Eco is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bologna and is the author of many books, including Foucault’s Pendulum.Oldcorn Anthony :
Anthony Oldcorn is Professor Emeritus of Italian Studies at Brown University.
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Lush, comprehensive scholarship.
-- Kirkus Reviews
-- Kirkus Reviews
From the Tree to the Labyrinth is a sort of summa of one of our most important thinkers on matters of language, signification, and interpretation. It illuminates all of Umberto Eco’s earlier work by providing a great deal of the historical contextualization for his arguments. It provides important and fruitful ways of thinking about the organization of knowledge and of our attitudes towards it. It intervenes in a number of debates in the philosophy of language and in linguistics. It contains a myriad of insights on medieval thinkers, Kant, and Peirce, to mention but a few. This is a book that will enjoy a wide readership.
-- Wlad Godzich, University of California, Santa Cruz
-- Wlad Godzich, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Contents
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Introduction
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1 From the Tree to the Labyrinth
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2 Metaphor as Knowledge
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3 From Metaphor to Analogia Entis
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4 The Dog That Barked (and Other Zoosemiotic Archaeologies)
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5 Fakes and Forgeries in the Middle Ages
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6 Jottings on Beatus of Liébana
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7 Dante between Modistae and Kabbalah
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8 The Use and Interpretation of Medieval Texts
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9 Toward a History of Denotation
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10 On Llull, Pico, and Llullism
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11 The Language of the Austral Land
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12 The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre
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13 On the Silence of Kant
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14 Natural Semiosis and the Word in Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed (I promessi sposi)
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15 The Threshold and the Infinite
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16 The Definitions in Croce’s Aesthetic
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17 Five Senses of the Word “Semantics,” from Bréal to the Present Day
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18 Weak Thought versus the Limits of Interpretation
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References
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Index
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