Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the Intellectual in the Age of Popular Culture [electronic resource] /
Merrell, Douglass.author.
This book provides a philosophical overview of Umberto Eco's historical and cultural development as a unique, internationally recognized public intellectual who communicates his ideas to both an academic and a popular audience. It describes Eco’s intellectual development from his childhood during World War II and student involvement as a Catholic youth activist and scholar of the Middle Ages, to his early writings on the "openness" of modern works such as Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Merrell also explores Eco’s pioneering role in semiotics and his later career as a novelist.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The Intermediate Thinker -- 2. The Intellectual Species -- 3. A Medievalist in Hibernation -- 4. The Exiled Heretic -- 5. The Art of Adventure: Joyce, Pareyson, and the Open Work -- 6. The Gruppo 63 and the Counter-Culture Movement -- 7. The Aesthetic Worlds of Superman and Charlie Brown -- 8. The Semiotic Species: A Grand Unified Theory of Culture -- 9. The Ethics of Interpretation and the Model Reader -- 10. Travels in the Fictional Labyrinth.
This book provides a philosophical overview of Umberto Eco's historical and cultural development as a unique, internationally recognized public intellectual who communicates his ideas to both an academic and a popular audience. It describes Eco’s intellectual development from his childhood during World War II and student involvement as a Catholic youth activist and scholar of the Middle Ages, to his early writings on the "openness" of modern works such as Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Merrell also explores Eco’s pioneering role in semiotics and his later career as a novelist.
Continental Philosophy.
Intellectual life-History.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Linguistics.
Continental Philosophy.
Intellectual Studies.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Language and Literature.