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Chronicles of A Liquid Society by Umberto Eco
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in ideological values, the crises in politics, and the unb ...Show more
Chronicles of a Liquid Society by Umberto Eco
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in ideological values, the crises in politics, and the unb ...Show more
Experiences in Translation by Alastair (TRN) Umberto; McEwen Eco
$39.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Toronto Italian Studies / Emilio Goggio Publications Series
Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Recalls experiencing liberation from fascism in Italy as a boy, and examines the various historical forms of fascism, always with an eye toward ugly manifestations. The author reflects on a question underlying the reflections in this book - what does it mean to be moral or ethical when one doesn't belie ...Show more
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connectio ...Show more
From the Tree to the Labyrinth: Historical Studies on the Sign and Interpretation by Umberto Eco
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The way we create and organize knowledge is the theme of "From the Tree to the Labyrinth," a major achievement by one of the world's foremost thinkers on language and interpretation. Umberto Eco begins by arguing that our familiar system of classification by genus and species derives from the Neo-Platon ...Show more
How to Spot a Fascist by Umberto Eco
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
We are here to remember what happened and to declare solemnly that 'they' must never do it again. But who are 'they'? HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance - including Eco's iconic essay 'Ur-Fascism', which lists the four ...Show more
How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco
$42.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, How to Write a The ...Show more
Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
"Inventing the Enemy" covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured over the last ten years, from the discussion of ideas that have inspired his earlier novels - exploring lost islands, mythical realms, and the medieval world in the process - to a disquisition on the theme ...Show more
Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
$19.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
"Inventing the Enemy" covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured over the last ten years, from the discussion of ideas that have inspired his earlier novels - exploring lost islands, mythical realms, and the medieval world in the process - to a disquisition on the theme ...Show more
Kant and the Platypus by Umberto Eco
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
An attempt to answer the question, how much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability and how much on our linguistic resources? Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic explorations, starting from the perceived data of common sense, to expound a clear critique of Kant.
Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation by Umberto Eco
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From the world famous author of In The Name of the Rose, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation 'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic but, bro ...Show more