Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the Intellectual in the Age of Popular Culture
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jun 07, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9783319547886
Description: "This text 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."--