Kant and the platypus
Subtitle: essays on language and cognition
By: Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Translation of: Kant e l'ornitorinco
Number of pages: 464
Subjects: Semiotics.
Description: "In these essays, Umberto Eco explores in depth such subjects as perception, the relationship between language and experience, and iconism that he only touched on in A Theory of Semiotics. Forgoing a formal, systematic treatment, Eco engages in a series of explorations based on common sense, from which flow an abundance of illustrative fables, often with animals as protagonists.

Among the characters, a position of prominence is reserved for the platypus, which appears to have been created specifically to "put the cat among the pigeons" as far as many theories of knowledge are concerned."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-452) and index.