Serendipities: language and lunacy - Softcover

Eco, Umberto

 
9780753808788: Serendipities: language and lunacy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0753808781 ISBN 13: 9780753808788
Verlag: Hachette Collections, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

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 belief in a Jewish masonic plot to dominate the world and other forms of paranoid anti-Semitism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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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 belief in a Jewish masonic plot to dominate the world and other forms of paranoid anti-Semitism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

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Verlag
Hachette Collections
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0753808781
ISBN 13 
9780753808788
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
164
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