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Serendipities - Langauage and Lunacy (Signed)
de Eco, Umberto
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- First
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- Aceptable/fine
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Avon, Connecticut, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Columbia University, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. Quarter yellow cloth over paper-covered boards. 129 pp. First US printing of this extended essay on language. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. A fine copy in dustwrapper. SIGNED by Eco and uncommon thus.
Sinopsis
Serendipities is a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, a brilliant exposition of how unanticipated truths often spring from false ideas. From Leibniz's belief that the I Ching illustrated the principles of calculus to Marco Polo's mistaking a rhinoceros for a unicorn, Umberto Eco offers a dazzling tour of intellectual history, illuminating the ways in which we project the familiar onto the strange to make sense of the world. Uncovering layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, Eco offers with wit and clarity such instances as Columbus's voyage to the New World, the fictions that grew around the Rosicrucians and Knights Templar, and the linguistic endeavors to recreate the language of Babel, to show how serendipities can evolve out of mistakes. With erudition, anecdotes, and scholarly rigor, this new collection of essays is sure to entertain and enlighten any reader with a passion for the curious history of languages and ideas.
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- Librería
- Derringer Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 35211
- Título
- Serendipities - Langauage and Lunacy (Signed)
- Autor
- Eco, Umberto
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- Columbia University
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1998
- Palabras clave
- Language Essay Signed
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Modern Literature / First Editions;
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