From the Tree to the Labyrinth : : Historical Studies on the Sign and Interpretation / / Umberto Eco.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Eco, Umberto,
• MitwirkendeR: Oldcorn, Anthony,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (640 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1 From the Tree to the Labyrinth --; 2 Metaphor as Knowledge --; 3 From Metaphor to Analogia Entis --; 4 The Dog That Barked (and Other Zoosemiotic Archaeologies) --; 5 Fakes and Forgeries in the Middle Ages --; 6 Jottings on Beatus of Liébana --; 7 Dante between Modistae and Kabbalah --; 8 The Use and Interpretation of Medieval Texts --; 9 Toward a History of Denotation --; 10 On Llull, Pico, and Llullism --; 11 The Language of the Austral Land --; 12 The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre --; 13 On the Silence of Kant --; 14 Natural Semiosis and the Word in Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed (I promessi sposi) --; 15 The Threshold and the Infinite --; 16 The Definitions in Croce’s Aesthetic --; 17 Five Senses of the Word “Semantics,” from Bréal to the Present Day --; 18 Weak Thought versus the Limits of Interpretation --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674728165; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674728165
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Umberto Eco.

How we create and organize knowledge is the theme of this major achievement by Umberto Eco. Demonstrating once again his inimitable ability to bridge ancient, medieval, and modern modes of thought, he offers here a brilliant illustration of his longstanding argument that problems of interpretation can be solved only in historical context.