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Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (Italian Academy Lectures) by Umberto Eco is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (Italian Academy Lectures) about?
In a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, Eco shows us how serendipities—unanticipated truths—often spring from mistaken ideas. From Leibniz’s belief that the I Ching illustrated the principles of calculus to Marco Polo’s mistaking a rhinoceros for a unicorn, Eco tours the labyrinth of intellectual history, illuminating the ways in which we project the familiar onto the strange. LAN009000,Language Arts and Disciplines/Linguistics,LIT004130,Literary Criticism/European/General
Who reads Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (Italian Academy Lectures)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Umberto Eco
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Social_sciences
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