Universe of the Mind
Subtitle: A Semiotic Theory of Culture (The Second World)
Contributors: Umberto Eco (Introduction); Ann Shukman (Translator)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780253214058
Subjects: Anthropology - Cultural; Semiotics & Theory; Russian & Former Soviet Union; Literary Criticism; Archaeology / Anthropology
First sentence: In the Saussurean system of thought, which has long determined the course of semiotic thinking, there is a clear preference for the study of language rather than speech, and of the code rather than the text.