Analysis and laughter, order and adventure: a tour of Umberto Eco’s work.

Review of the book Umberto Eco. Tra Ordine e Avventura, by Claudio Paolucci

Authors

  • Juan Manuel Montoro Università di Bologna

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22235/d.v0i28.1583

Keywords:

semiotics, Umberto Eco, cartography of knowledge, encyclopedia, theory of culture

Abstract

This review is intended to identify the principal arguments, theoretical routes and nuances of thought of Umberto Eco in the way that they are presented by Claudio Paolucci —Eco’s main theoretical continuator— in his tribute book recently edited in Italian language. This work seeks, on the one hand, to highlight the value of the book, for summarizing such a complex work in some clear axes and, on the other, from a critical point of view, to discuss the central value that Paolucci assigns to laughter as a mechanism for the fall of high culture.

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Published

2018-05-04

How to Cite

Montoro, J. M. (2018). Analysis and laughter, order and adventure: a tour of Umberto Eco’s work.: Review of the book Umberto Eco. Tra Ordine e Avventura, by Claudio Paolucci. Dixit, (28), 84–92. https://doi.org/10.22235/d.v0i28.1583

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