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1 online resource (318 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
On the Shoulders of Giants collects previously unpublished essays from the last fifteen years of Umberto Eco's life. With humor and erudition, one of the great contemporary thinkers takes on the roots of Western culture, the origin of language, the nature of beauty and ugliness, the imperfections of art, and the lure of mysteries |
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On the shoulders of giants -- Beauty -- Ugliness -- The absolute and the relative -- Beautiful flame -- The invisible -- Paradoxes and aphorisms -- Untruths, lies, falsifications -- On some forms of imperfection in art -- Some revelations on secrecy -- Conspiracy -- Representations of the sacred |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Art -- Philosophy.
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Art -- Philosophy. |
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Art -- Themes, motives.
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Art -- Themes, motives. |
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Aesthetics.
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theme. |
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philosophy. |
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Aesthetics. |
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays. |
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays. |
| Added Author |
McEwen, Alastair, translator.
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| Added Title |
Sulle spalle dei giganti. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Eco, Umberto. Lectures. Selections. English. On the shoulders of giants. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019 9780674240896 (DLC) 2019020775 (OCoLC)1089967696 |
| ISBN |
0674242262 electronic book |
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9780674242265 electronic book |
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9780674242272 electronic book |
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0674242270 electronic book |
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9780674240896 |
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0674240898 |
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