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On the shoulders of ...
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On the shoulders of giants / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.
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Eco, Umberto, author.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019.
Subjects
Art -- Philosophy.
Art -- Themes, motives.
Philosophy.
Aesthetics.
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9780674240896 (hardcover) :
0674240898 (hardcover) :
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318 pages ; 22 cm
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.
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"On the Shoulders of Giants collects previously unpublished essays from the last fifteen years of Umberto Eco's life.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"--
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