Jun 25 2008
Umberto Eco
Author of ‘The Name of the Rose’ and Professor of Semiotics
Italian born Umberto Eco is a prolific author and essayist and has published numerous books and articles covering a wide range of subjects from Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages to Semiotics – the Science of Signs and Symbols. He reached ultimate fame when his book ‘The Name of the Rose’ was made into a blockbuster film.
A laureate graduate from Turin University in 1954 Umberto Eco was cultural programme editor for RAI – Italian Radio and Television – from 1954 to 1959. He joined the publishing house of Bompiano in Milan as senior non-fiction editor in 1959 and was with them until 1975. Since 1962 Umberto Eco has been a regular columnist for some of Italy’s leading newspapers such as Il Giorno, La Stampa, Corriere della Sera.
Umberto Eco holds honorary doctorates from Universities in both Europe and the Americas and has lectured and given seminars in Universities and cultural institutions in Italy and throughout the world. He has collaborated with cultural organisations world wide. He has received many literary awards and decorations for his work including Cavaliere di Gran Croce al Merito of Italy (1996), Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur of France 1993 and Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France (1985)[/expand]
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Topics
Culture and Society in the 21st Century
Semiotics – the Science of Signs and Symbols
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
The Definition of Art
PUBLICATIONS
The Search for the Perfect Language (1997)
The Island of the Day Before (1995)
Foucault’s Pendulum (1990)
The Limits of Interpretation (1990)
Interpretation and overinterpretation (1992)
The Name of the Rose (1983)
A Theory of Semiotics (1976)
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