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The famous philosopher and author holds a compelling discussion on the evolution and cultural meanings of collecting and list-making.
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Best-selling author and philosopher Umberto Eco is currently resident at the Louvre, and his chosen theme of study is "the vertigo of lists." Reflecting on this enormous trove of human achievements, in his lyrical intellectual style he has embarked on an investigation of the phenomenon of cataloging and collecting. This book, featuring lavish reproductions of artworks from the Louvre and other world-famous collections, is a philosophical and artistic sequel to Eco’s recent acclaimed books, History of Beauty and On Ugliness, books in which he delved into the psychology, philosophy, history, and art of human forms. Eco is a modern-day Diderot, and here he examines the Western mind’s predilection for list-making and the encyclopedic. His central thesis is that in Western culture a passion for accumulation is recurring: lists of saints, catalogues of plants, collections of art. This impulse has recurred through the ages from music to literature to art. Eco refers to this obsession itself as a "giddiness of lists" but shows how in the right hands it can be a "poetics of catalogues." From medieval reliquaries to Andy Warhol’s compulsive collecting, Umberto Eco reflects in his inimitably inspiring way on how such catalogues mirror the spirit of their times.
发表于2025-03-17
The Infinity of Lists 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
原以为艾柯这本《无限清单》只是一本论述清单意义的书,读过发现这本书就是无限清单的本体呈现,我想,艾柯写此书的想法一定是:我的博学终于派上用场,哈哈哈。 再回头看艾柯写此书的源起:「卢浮宫邀请我挑选一个主题来筹办一系列会议、展览、公开朗读、音乐会、电影,我毫不...
评分卢浮宫邀请我挑选一个主题来筹办一系列会议、展览、公开朗读、音乐会、电影,我毫不犹豫,提出清单(也包括目录、枚举)这个主题。 这念头是怎么来的呢? 读过我小说的人都会发觉,那些作品里有很多清单。我的这个偏好有两个起源,这两个起源都可以追溯到我年轻时所做...
评分1964年,32岁的艾柯给儿子斯蒂芬诺写了一封信,刊载于文学杂志《Il Verri》的“小记事”(Diario Minimo)专栏。信中,他用将近两页的篇幅,一口气列举了58种枪械、刀剑、战斧、长矛……结束时还意犹未尽地感叹:“许许多多的武器。这些...
评分梁文道:我很不喜欢给人家开书单,但是我特别爱看人家开的书单,为什么呢?因为我总想在书单里面看看,是不是有些书我是听都没听过,读都没读过,然后我就看着书单在遐想,假如我读了它多好,我将来一定花时间去读,可是我们都知道,我们这辈子,绝对不可能按照那么多不同种类...
评分1964年,32岁的艾柯给儿子斯蒂芬诺写了一封信,刊载于文学杂志《Il Verri》的“小记事”(Diario Minimo)专栏。信中,他用将近两页的篇幅,一口气列举了58种枪械、刀剑、战斧、长矛……结束时还意犹未尽地感叹:“许许多多的武器。这些...
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Umberto Eco, semiotician at the University of Bologna, is widely known as one of the finest living authors whose best-selling novels include The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, and Baudolino.
Bringing the idea of taxonomy to its structural fullness~
评分臣妾看不懂啊!
评分臣妾看不懂啊!
评分清宫的创新和收集癖正是an act of listing啊!
评分Bringing the idea of taxonomy to its structural fullness~
The Infinity of Lists 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书