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Serendipities - Language And Lunacy (Paperback, Reissue)
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In this collection of five lectures the author of The Name of the
Rose takes us on a series of thought-provoking journeys down the
byways of language and intellectual history. The theme of the
volume is the great falsehoods or mistakes which changed the world.
Thus Columbus discovered America while looking for something else;
and a completely bogus letter of the 12th century, claiming that
Christian people existed in the East, stimulated a huge expansion
of Western civilization towards the Orient over the next 500 years.
Eco also repeatedly returns to the quest to find the universal
language said to have existed before the confusion of tongues at
the Tower of Babel. Witty, erudite and encyclopedic. (Kirkus UK)
The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional
inventions. 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 -- the myth of the
Rosicrucians affected the Masons, leading in turn to the widespread
belief in a Jewish masonic plot to dominate the world and other
forms of paranoid anti-Semitism in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries
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