Author:
Eco, Umberto, author.
ImprintCambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
Description318 pages ; 22 cm
Note:"This book is a translation of Sulle Spalle dei Giganti (c)2017 La Nave di Teseo Editore, Milano, Italy."--Title page verso.
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-303) and index.
Note:"On the Shoulders of Giants collects previously unpublished essays from the last fifteen years of Umberto Eco's life.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."-- Provided by publisher.
