Serendipities: Language And Lunacy
Умберто Эко
SERENDIPITIES is an iconoclastic, dazzlingly erudite and witty demonstration, by one of the world's most brilliant thinkers, of how myths and lunacies can produce historical developments of no small significance. In Eco's words, 'even errors can produce interesting side effects'. Eco's book shows how:
- believers in a flat earth helped Columbus accidentally discover America
- the medieval myth of Prester John, the Christian king in Asia, assisted the European drive eastward
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- believers in a flat earth helped Columbus accidentally discover America
- the medieval myth of Prester John, the Christian king in Asia, assisted the European drive eastward
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Дата написания: 2002
Язык: Английский
