Umberto Eco: Semiotic Political and Literary Theorist
Explore the influential works of Umberto Eco, renowned semiotic, political, and literary theorist. Discover his groundbreaking books on philosophy, semiotics, and cultural theory that shaped modern thought.
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History of Beauty
by Umberto Eco
Explores the nature, the meaning, and the very history of the idea of beauty in Western culture; illustrated with abundant examples of painting and sculpture and lengthy quotations from writers and philosophers. Demonstrates how every historical era has had its own ideas about eye-appeal.
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Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
by Umberto Eco
"Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature . . . this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory." —Times Literary Supplement
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Misreadings
by Umberto Eco
Playful parodies by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. Here, Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, overacademic, and overintellectual, and along the way makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde in art in criticism.
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How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays
by Umberto Eco
Offers essays on militarism, computerese, art, bureaucracy, health, airplane food, bad coffee, taxi drivers, fax machines, porno films, football fans, and other topics
