From the tree to the labyrinth : historical studies on the sign and interpretation / Umberto Eco ; translated by Anthony Oldcorn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eco, Umberto, author.

Contributor:

Oldcorn, Anthony, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics--History.

Semiotics.

Language and languages--Philosophy--History.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (640 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

1 From the Tree to the Labyrinth

2 Metaphor as Knowledge

3 From Metaphor to Analogia Entis

4 The Dog That Barked (and Other Zoosemiotic Archaeologies)

5 Fakes and Forgeries in the Middle Ages

6 Jottings on Beatus of Liébana

7 Dante between Modistae and Kabbalah

8 The Use and Interpretation of Medieval Texts

9 Toward a History of Denotation

10 On Llull, Pico, and Llullism

11 The Language of the Austral Land

12 The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre

13 On the Silence of Kant

14 Natural Semiosis and the Word in Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed (I promessi sposi)

15 The Threshold and the Infinite

16 The Definitions in Croce’s Aesthetic

17 Five Senses of the Word “Semantics,” from Bréal to the Present Day

18 Weak Thought versus the Limits of Interpretation

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780674728172

0674728173

9780674728165

0674728165

OCLC:

1029827684