Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the Intellectual in the Age of Popular Culture

Douglass Merrell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

VI, 296 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
9783319547886 (ISBN)

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This book provides a philosophical overview of Umberto Eco's historical and cultural development as a unique, internationally recognized public intellectual who communicates his ideas to both an academic and a popular audience. It describes Eco's intellectual development from his childhood during World War II and student involvement as a Catholic youth activist and scholar of the Middle Ages, to his early writings on the "openness" of modern works such as Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Merrell also explores Eco's pioneering role in semiotics and his later career as a novelist.

lt;br />Douglass Merrell completed his PhD in in History on Umberto Eco at the University of Washington in 2000. He has subsequently taught in Rome, Venice, and Padua.

Chapter One: The Intermediate Thinker Chapter Two: The Intellectual Species Chapter Three: A Medievalist in Hibernation Chapter Four: The Exiled Heretic Chapter Five: The Art of Adventure: Joyce, Pareyson, and the Open Work Chapter Six: The Gruppo 63 and the Counter-Culture Movement Chapter Seven: The Aesthetic Worlds of Superman and Charlie Brown Chapter Eight: The Semiotic Species: A Grand Unified Theory of Culture Chapter Nine: The Ethics of Interpretation and the Model Reader Chapter Ten: Travels in the Fictional Labyrinth

"The book's style and focus remain professional throughout. ... the author is nimble and shrewd in his explanations of Eco's works and his desire to foster a critical consciousness in his readers. ... this work is essential for anyone with more than a passing interest in Eco." (Andre van Loon, The Cambridge Quarterly, Vol. 47 (02), June, 2018)

Erscheinungsdatum	27.06.2017
Zusatzinfo	VI, 296 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	524 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Schlagworte	Continental Philosophy • Gruppo 63 • history of ideas • History of philosophy, philosophical traditions • hyperreality • intellectual studies • Language and Literature • Language: reference & general • Language: reference & general • Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 • Literary studies: general • Philosophy • prague cemetery • Queen Loana • Religion and Philosophy • The Open Work • Twentieth-Century Literature
ISBN-13	9783319547886 / 9783319547886
Zustand	Neuware