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Serendipities: Language And Lunacy
Umberto Eco
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Description for Serendipities: Language And Lunacy
Paperback. The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions. Translator(s): Weaver, William. Num Pages: 176 pages, 8Col.ill. BIC Classification: CFB; DSA; JFCX; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions.
SERENDIPITIES is an iconoclastic, dazzlingly erudite and witty demonstration, by one of the world's most brilliant thinkers, of how myths and lunacies can produce historical developments of no small significance. In Eco's words, 'even errors can produce interesting side effects'. Eco's book shows how:
-- believers in a flat earth helped Columbus accidentally discover America
-- the medieval myth of Prester John, the Christian king in Asia, assisted the European drive eastward
-- the myth of the Rosicrucians affected the Masons, leading in turn to the widespread ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Weight
174g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753808788
SKU
V9780753808788
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About Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco is Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna and one of the world's most famous -- and admired -- writers. His is the author of the novels In the Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Baudolino and The Island of the Day Before.
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