Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. His range is wide, and his insights are acute, frequently ironic, and often downright funny....
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Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. His range is wide, and his insights are acute, frequently ironic, and often downright funny. Translated by William Weaver Front Matter -- Half Title -- OTHER BOOKS BY UMBERTO ECO -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the American Edition -- 1. Travels in Hyperreality -- 2. The Return of the Middle Ages -- Dreaming of the Middle Ages -- Living in the New Middle Ages -- 3. The Gods of the Underworld -- The Sacred Is Not Just a Fashion -- The Suicides of the Temple -- Whose Side Are the Orixa On? -- Striking at the Heart of the State -- Why Are They Laughing in Those Cages? -- On the Crisis of the Crisis of Reason -- 4. Reports from the Global Village -- Towards a Semiological Guerrilla Warfare -- The Multiplication of the Media -- Culture as Show Business -- Sports Chatter -- The World Cup and Its Pomps -- Falsification and Consensus -- 5. Reading Things -- Two Families of Objects -- Lady Barbara -- Lumbar Thought -- Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage -- A Photograph -- 6. De Consolatione Philosophiae -- Cogito Interruptus -- Language, Power , Force -- In Praise of St. Thomas -- The Comic and the Rule -- 7. De Interpretatione -- 8. A Theory of Expositions -- Back Matter -- BOOKS BY UMBERTO ECO AVAILABLE IN HARVEST PAPERBACK EDITIONS FROM HARCOURT, INC