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On the Shoulders of Giants collects previously unpublished essays from the last fifteen years of Umberto Eco's life.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

Table of Contents:

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.