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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.
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.
發表於2024-12-22
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米洛拉德·帕維奇的《哈紮爾辭典》在翁貝托·艾柯看來,無疑是一份清單,這本小說裏曾提到“名詞比動詞高貴”,但何以如此卻語焉不詳。毫無疑問,無論名詞是不是很高貴,人類産生的第一本辭典一定是本名詞辭典,而任何一本辭典首先肯定是一份清單。翁貝托·艾柯受盧浮宮之約,...
評分米洛拉德·帕維奇的《哈紮爾辭典》在翁貝托·艾柯看來,無疑是一份清單,這本小說裏曾提到“名詞比動詞高貴”,但何以如此卻語焉不詳。毫無疑問,無論名詞是不是很高貴,人類産生的第一本辭典一定是本名詞辭典,而任何一本辭典首先肯定是一份清單。翁貝托·艾柯受盧浮宮之約,...
評分土耳其作傢奧爾罕·帕慕剋在《純真博物館》中,似乎錶現齣瞭一種對物質列舉的“強迫癥”:“我愛芙頌,也愛她愛過的,甚至是觸碰過的一切。我悉數收集起那些鹽瓶、小狗擺設、頂針、筆、發卡、煙灰缸、耳墜、香水瓶、手帕、胸針……將它們放入瞭自己的博物館。我建成瞭一座‘純...
評分米洛拉德·帕維奇的《哈紮爾辭典》在翁貝托·艾柯看來,無疑是一份清單,這本小說裏曾提到“名詞比動詞高貴”,但何以如此卻語焉不詳。毫無疑問,無論名詞是不是很高貴,人類産生的第一本辭典一定是本名詞辭典,而任何一本辭典首先肯定是一份清單。翁貝托·艾柯受盧浮宮之約,...
評分梁文道:我很不喜歡給人傢開書單,但是我特彆愛看人傢開的書單,為什麼呢?因為我總想在書單裏麵看看,是不是有些書我是聽都沒聽過,讀都沒讀過,然後我就看著書單在遐想,假如我讀瞭它多好,我將來一定花時間去讀,可是我們都知道,我們這輩子,絕對不可能按照那麼多不同種類...
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以 eco 的書來說,有點失望。太淺顯瞭。
評分Bringing the idea of taxonomy to its structural fullness~
評分盡管幾乎每個單詞都認識,但就是一句都沒看懂啊!可能中文版還要琢磨一下纔能明白,英文版就真的一竅不通啊!
評分盡管幾乎每個單詞都認識,但就是一句都沒看懂啊!可能中文版還要琢磨一下纔能明白,英文版就真的一竅不通啊!
評分以 eco 的書來說,有點失望。太淺顯瞭。
The Infinity of Lists 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載