The Search for the Perfect Language

Informationen zum Autor Umberto Eco was born in Alessandria in 1932 and has been Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna since 1975 and President of the International Centre for Semiotic and Cognitive Studies since 1988. His books include ‘The Name of the Rose’ (1980) and Foucault’s Pendulum’ (1988). His most recent works include ‘Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language’ (1984), ‘The Limits of Interpretation’ (1990), ‘Apocalyspe Postponed’ (1994) and ‘The Island of the Day Before’ (1995). Witty and dazzling study of the search, from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance, for the original and perfect language of the Garden Of Eden. Widely thought at the time to be the source of all modern languages, it was believed that if it could be found and restored to use, it would provide a universal and unambiguous language with which to express the essence of all possible things and concepts. "A wonderful piece of literature, a book to be read by all with pleasure" }TLS{.

Product details

• Authors: Umberto Eco, Eco Umberto
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.07.1997
• EAN: 9780006863786
• ISBN: 978-0-00-686378-6
• No. of pages: 385
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / General, FICTION / Literary, Linguistics, FICTION / Classics, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, PHILOSOPHY / Reference, Historical & comparative linguistics, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, philosophy;an