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How much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability, and how much on our linguistic resources? Where, and how, do these two questions meet? Umberto Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic and typically brilliant explorations, starting from the perceived data of common sense, from which flow an abundance of ‘stories’ or fables, often with animals as protagonists, to expound a clear critique of Kant, Heidegger and Peirce. And as a beast designed specifically to throw spanners in the works of cognitive theory, the duckbilled platypus naturally takes centre stage.

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Weight 0.33 kg
Dimensions 2.8 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
Language

Pages

480
Publisher

Year Published

2000-9-7
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

009927695X
About The Author

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) wrote fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller. His other works include Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero along with many brilliant collections of essays.

Full of jokes, conundra and startling insights…Eco has both moved with the times and moved his discipline along… Few will come to Kant and the Platypus for a bulletin on the world of literary theory…what the general reader will find here is an extraordinary mind at play
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A typical Eco book in its scope and vastness of ambition. In his hands, semiotics is transformed from a specialist branch of learning into a theory of everything…readers will not fail to be stimulated

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