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.
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Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the Intellectual in the Age of Popular Culture
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World HistoryTable of contents
- Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the Intellectual in the Age of Popular Culture
- 1 The Intermediate Thinker
- 2 The Intellectual Species
- 3 A Medievalist in Hibernation
- 4 The Exiled Heretic
- 5 The Art of Adventure: Eco, Joyce, and the Open Work
- 6 The Gruppo 63 and the Italian Neo-avant-garde
- 7 The Aesthetics of Superman and Charlie Brown
- 8 The Semiotic Species: A Grand Unified Theory of Culture
- 9 The Reader in the Story
- 10 The Literary Provocateur
- Bibliography
- Index
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