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Title: The Limits of Interpretation (Advances in Semiotics) by Umberto Eco ISBN: 0-253-20869-6 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: March, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What, there is truth?
Comment: Well, not exactly. But Umberto Eco argues forcefully that there are a limited number of reasonable interpretations of any given text in the Limits of Interpretation. The collected essays within examine the problems with many critical philosophers' arguments that meaning is necessarily entirely subjective. The book, overall, makes a good reply.
In it, Eco takes on the alternate worlds view, as well as Derrida and Foucualt. He further describes some ways that signs can be created to constrain interpretations and criticizes the meaninglessness created by total subjectivity in terpretation.
In my opinion, Eco is strongest as a writer when he is an essayist and he is excellent here. However, it is not a large book and the price... is pretty high, especially since these essays have mostly been published elsewhere. Unfortunately, that was mostly in Italian. Look for a used copy if you can find one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Better art than chaos
Comment: Since Luciano Anceschi's lessons at the University of Bologna (a town in Italy, not the American imitation of "mortadella" meat), the questions about "what is art" and "which interpretations of a work of art are acceptable and which are not" has arisen with the power and the consistence of a flood. "Anything" - some scholars and critics claimed - "can be considered art, if it is presented as art: a piece of newspaper glued to a wall can be a poem..." But can it be a good poem? Chaos followed. As open minded as usual - and ever so clear despite the French intellectual franzy fashion of his collegues (say hello do Derrida, Greimas, Bataillle, Kristeva and all the nice company) - Eco tryies a sort of "coming back to the book". A lot of interpretations are possible, but not ANY interpretation. Clever, illuminating, wisely fun in his choice of examples... Bel colpo Umberto! Ci vediamo in via Zamboni!
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Title: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language by Umberto Eco ISBN: 0253203988 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: July, 1986 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts by Umberto Eco ISBN: 025320318X Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: March, 1984 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Interpretation and Overinterpretation by Umberto Eco, Stefan Collini, Jonathan Culler, Richard Rorty, Christine Brooke-Rose ISBN: 0521425549 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 05 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Theory of Semiotics by Umberto Eco ISBN: 0253202175 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: February, 1979 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes ISBN: 0374521468 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1977 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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