{"product_id":"ecos-chaosmos-2","title":"Eco's Chaosmos","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile Umberto Eco's intellectual itinerary was marked by his early studies of post-Crocean aesthetics and his spectacular concentration on linguistics, information theory, structuralism, semiotics, cognitive science, and media studies, what constitutes the peculiarity of his critical and fiction writing is the tension between a typically medieval search for a code and the hermeneutic representative of deconstructive tendencies. This tension between \u003ci\u003ecosmos\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003echaos\u003c\/i\u003e, order and disorder, is reflected in the word \u003ci\u003echaosmos\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this brilliant assessment of the philosophical basis of Eco's critical and fictional writing, Cristina Farronato explores the other distinctive aspect of Eco's thought - the struggle for a composition of opposites, the outcome deriving from his ability to elicit similar contrasts from the past and re-play them in modern terms. Focusing principally on how Eco's scholarly background influenced his study of semiotics, Farronato analyzes \u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e in relation to William of Ockham's epistemology, C.S. Peirce's work on abduction, and Wittgenstein's theory of language. She discusses \u003ci\u003eFoucault's Pendulum\u003c\/i\u003e as an explicit comment on the modern debate on interpretation through a direct reference to Early Modern hermetic thought, correlates \u003ci\u003eThe Island of the Day Before\u003c\/i\u003e as a postmodern mixture of science and superstition, and reviews \u003ci\u003eBaudolino\u003c\/i\u003e as an historical\/fantastic novel that once again situates the Middle Ages in a postmodern context. \u003ci\u003eEco's Chaosmos\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how Eco's use of semiotic theory is important for an understanding of the postmodern aspects of today's literature and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"By Cristina Farranato","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575846600886,"sku":"9781442674257","price":66.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781442674257_d1fee29a-b0bc-4121-bda1-7d4e4cdcbbd9.jpg?v=1727466966","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/ecos-chaosmos-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}