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Serendipities Prof Umberto Eco

Serendipities By Prof Umberto Eco

Serendipities by Prof Umberto Eco


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The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions.

Serendipities Summary

Serendipities: Language And Lunacy by Prof Umberto Eco

The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions.

SERENDIPITIES is an iconoclastic, dazzlingly erudite and witty demonstration, by one of the world's most brilliant thinkers, of how myths and lunacies can produce historical developments of no small significance. In Eco's words, 'even errors can produce interesting side effects'. Eco's book shows how:

-- believers in a flat earth helped Columbus accidentally discover America
-- the medieval myth of Prester John, the Christian king in Asia, assisted the European drive eastward
-- the myth of the Rosicrucians affected the Masons, leading in turn to the widespread belief in a Jewish masonic plot to dominate the world and other forms of paranoid anti-Semitism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

About Prof Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco is Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna and one of the world's most famous -- and admired -- writers. His is the author of the novels In the Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Baudolino and The Island of the Day Before.

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GOR001671961
9780753808788
0753808781
Serendipities: Language And Lunacy by Prof Umberto Eco
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Orion Publishing Co
20020502
176
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