Philosopher
Umberto Eco
Overview
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement.
Eco wrote prolifically throughout his life, with his output including children's books, translations from French and English, in addition to a twice-monthly newspaper column "La Bustina di Minerva" (Minerva's Matchbook) in the magazine L'Espresso beginning in 1985, with his last column (a critical appraisal of the Romantic paintings of Francesco Hayez) appearing 27 January 2016. At the time of his death, he was an Emeritus professor at the University of Bologna, where he taught for much of his life. In the 21st century, he has continued to gain recognition for his 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism", where Eco lists fourteen general properties he believes comprise fascist ideologies.
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Philosophers who discussed Umberto Eco
- Gershom Scholem
- Judith Butler
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
- The Name of the Rose
- Marshall McLuhan
- Boethius
- Thomas Aquinas
- Roger Bacon
- Julius Evola
- Hypatia
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Benedetto Croce
- The Da Vinci Code
- The Library of Babel
- Maurizio Ferraris
- Gloria Origgi
- Foucault's Pendulum
Ideas Umberto Eco discusses
- Roger Scruton
- Antisemitism
- Fascism
- Harvard University Press
- Gilles Deleuze
- St Anne's College, Oxford
- John Searle
- James Joyce
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Mass communication
- Jesuits
- Korea
- University of Toronto Press
- Harvard University
- Emeritus
- Beijing
- The Name of the Rose
- Sociology
- The Guardian
- Thomas Aquinas
- Jean Baudrillard
- Post-structuralism
- Timbuktu
- Jews
Place in the tradition
Part of Fascism.