Kant y el ornitorrinco
by Umberto Eco
En este nuevo ensayo de Umberto Eco, filosofia y semiotica se aunan para analizar los mecanismos de percepcion del hombre. Por que reconocemos a un gato como tal?, por que hemos acordado denominarlo de ese modo? A partir de estas preguntas, el novelista y filosofo italiano retoma una serie de aspectos que en su Tratado de semiotica general no habian sido examinados con profundidad suficiente. Para ello, recoge y estudia fabulas protagonizadas por animales en las que el funcionamiento del sentido comun juega un papel decisivo. Y entre todos los animales, el ornitorrinco adquiere un relieve especial, pues parece concebido para poner en crisis las teorias del conocimiento. Kant y el ornitorrinco es, ademas del complemento definitivo a los estudios semioticos de Eco, una exaltacion de la filosofia como arte del pensamiento y como indagacion de las eternas dudas del hombre.
FictionLanguage Arts & DisciplinesCommunication StudiesLiterary CollectionsPhilosophy
RELEASED1999
PUBLISHERLumen
LENGTH488
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Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is widely known for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy. Eco also wrote academic texts, children's books, and essays, and edited and translated into Italian books from French, such as Raymond Queneau’s “Exercises in Style” (1983). He was the founder of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Republic of San Marino,[3] president of the Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities at the University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and an honorary fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.
Kant y el ornitorrinco
by Umberto Eco
En este nuevo ensayo de Umberto Eco, filosofia y semiotica se aunan para analizar los mecanismos de percepcion del hombre. Por que reconocemos a un gato como tal?, por que hemos acordado denominarlo de ese modo? A partir de estas preguntas, el novelista y filosofo italiano retoma una serie de aspectos que en su Tratado de semiotica general no habian sido examinados con profundidad suficiente. Para ello, recoge y estudia fabulas protagonizadas por animales en las que el funcionamiento del sentido comun juega un papel decisivo. Y entre todos los animales, el ornitorrinco adquiere un relieve especial, pues parece concebido para poner en crisis las teorias del conocimiento. Kant y el ornitorrinco es, ademas del complemento definitivo a los estudios semioticos de Eco, una exaltacion de la filosofia como arte del pensamiento y como indagacion de las eternas dudas del hombre.
FictionLanguage Arts & DisciplinesCommunication StudiesLiterary CollectionsPhilosophy
RELEASED1999
PUBLISHERLumen
LENGTH488
LANGUAGEES
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is widely known for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy. Eco also wrote academic texts, children's books, and essays, and edited and translated into Italian books from French, such as Raymond Queneau’s “Exercises in Style” (1983). He was the founder of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Republic of San Marino,[3] president of the Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities at the University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and an honorary fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.
