| Description |
vi, 633 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
From the tree to the labyrinth -- Metaphor as knowledge: Aristotle's medieval (mis)fortunes -- From metaphor to analogia entis -- The dog that barked (and other zoosemiotic archaeologies) -- Fakes and forgeries in the Middle Ages -- Jottings on Beatus of Liébana -- Dante between Modistae and Kabbalah -- The use and interpretation of medieval texts -- Toward a history of denotation -- On Llull, Pico, and Llullism -- The language of the Austral land -- The linguistics of Joseph de Maistre -- On the silence of kant -- Natural semiosis and the word in Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed (I promessi sposi) -- The threshold and the infinite: Peirce and primary iconism -- The definitions in Croce's aesthetic -- Five senses of the word "Semantics," from Bréto the present day -- Weak thought versus the limits of interpretation. |
| Note |
"Originally published as Dall'albero al labirinto: Studi storici sul segno e l'interpretazione, by Umberto Eco, © 2007 RCS Libri S.p.A." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Semiotics -- History.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy -- History.
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| Added Author |
Oldcorn, Anthony, translator.
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| Added Title |
Dall'albero al labirinto. English
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| ISBN |
9780674049185 hardback |
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0674049187 hardback |
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