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.
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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.
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...
评分这本书本身就是一本清单。 当然,仔细追究起来阅读每本书都如同阅读一本清单目录。唯一不同的是,意大利作家翁贝托•艾柯编著的这本《无限的清单》就如同把我们原来阅读时的千头万绪整理成了一种有秩序的清单,并且用这份清单互相指涉文学史无数的清单文学。而对我们的阅读行...
评分都说翁贝托·艾柯是整个欧洲读书最多的作家。《无限的清单》这本书充分展示了他惊人的阅读量。从《荷马史诗》到歌德的《浮士德》、普鲁斯特的《在斯万家那边》,从莎士比亚到乔伊斯、博尔赫斯——包括他自己,艾柯旁征博引,几乎涵盖了整个欧洲文学史。不仅如此,书中还列...
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...
实在是喜欢 !
评分清宫的创新和收集癖正是an act of listing啊!
评分实在是喜欢 !
评分清宫的创新和收集癖正是an act of listing啊!
评分清宫的创新和收集癖正是an act of listing啊!
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