Author: Eco Umberto Eco

In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco shares with us his Secret Life as a reader-his love for MAD magazine, for Scarlett O’Hara, for the nineteenth-century French novelist Nerval’s Sylvie, …

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 …

In this stimulating dialogue these two great men, who stand on opposite sides of the church door, discuss some of the most controversial issues of the day.One is a respected scholar and one of the pr …

In the course of the long debate on the nature and the classification of signs, from Boethius to Ockham, there are at least three lines of thought: the Stoic heritage, that influences Augustine, Abel …

A posthumous collection of essays by one of our greatest contemporary thinkers that provides a towering vision of Western culture.In Umberto Eco’s first novel, The Name of the Rose, Nicholas of Morim …

Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these "confessions, " the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career …

Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these "confessions, " the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career …