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On the shoulders of giants /

On the Shoulders of Giants collects previously unpublished essays from the last fifteen years of Umberto Eco's life.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 imperfectio...

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Main Author:	Eco, Umberto (Author)
Other Authors:	McEwen, Alastair (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Art > Philosophy. Art > Themes, motives. Philosophy. Aesthetics.

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