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| 文件类型: | 书 |
|---|---|
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
Umberto Eco |
| ISBN: | 0231111347 9780231111348 |
| OCLC号码: | 39116569 |
| 描述: | ix, 129 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 内容: | Force of falsity -- Languages in paradise -- From Marco Polo to Leibniz : stories of intellectual misunderstandings -- Language of the Austral Land -- Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre. |
| 丛书名: | Italian Academy lectures. |
| 其他题名: | Essays. |
| 责任: | Umberto Eco ; translated by William Weaver. |
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In a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, Eco shows us how serendipities----unanticipated truths----often spring from mistaken ideas. Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much smaller than it is, leading him to seek out a quick route to the East via the West and thus fortuitously "discovering" America.
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Eco cajoles his readers to go out and learn more, and perhaps, to disagree with him. -- Scott Gordon The Daily Yomiuri Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous... The literary examples Eco employs range from Dante to Dumas, from Sterne to Spillane. His text is thought-provoking, often outright funny, and full of surprising juxtapositions. Atlantic Monthly 再读一些...
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