UMBERTO ECO (1932-2016) was an Italian novelist, essayist, literary critic, and philosopher. A scholar in the arcane field of semiotics, he became best known for his groundbreaking historical mystery novel THE NAME OF THE ROSE (1980).
Hidden behind Eco the novelist was a serious philosopher and literary critic. His bibliography of non-fiction works on language, culture and belief is vast and forbidding. Eco founded and developed one of the most important approaches in contemporary semiotics, usually referred to as interpretative semiotics. He sought to interpret cultures through their signs and symbols -- words, religious icons, banners, clothing, musical scores, even cartoons -- and published more than 20 nonfiction books on these subjects while teaching at the University of Bologna, Europe's oldest university.
While he made many of his scholarly peers uncomfortable with his pop culture celebrity, Eco saw no contradiction in his dual status. "I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels," he said.
Please note this collection consists only of Eco's non-fiction and philosophical works. His fiction has been uploaded separately.
The following books are in PDF and/or ePUB format as indicated:
* APOCALYPSE POSTPONED (Indiana UP, 1994). Edited by Robert Lumley. -- PDF
* BELIEF OR NONBELIEF: A Confrontation [with Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini] (Arcade, 2011). Translated by Minna Proctor. -- ePUB
* FIVE MORAL PIECES (Harcourt, 2001). Translated by Alastair McEwen. -- ePUB
* FROM THE TREE TO THE LABYRINTH: Historical Studies on the Sign and Intepretation (Harvard UP, 2014). Translated by Anthony Oldcorn. -- ePUB
* HOW TO TRAVEL WITH A SALMON & Other Essays (Harcourt, 1994). Translated by William Weaver. -- PDF + ePUB
* HOW TO WRITE A THESIS (MIT, 2015). Translated by Caterina Mongiat Farina and Geoff Farina. -- PDF + ePUB
* INTERPRETATION AND OVERINTERPRETATION (Cambridge UP, 1992). Edited by Stefan Collini. -- PDF
* INVENTING THE ENEMY & Other Occasional Writings (Harcourt, 2012). Translated by Richard Dixon. -- ePUB
* KANT AND THE PLATYPUS: Essays on Language and Cognition (Harcourt, 1999). Translated by Alastair McEwen. -- PDF + ePUB
* THE LIMITS OF INTERPRETATION (Indiana UP, 1990). -- PDF
* MISREADINGS (Harcourt, 1993). Translated by William Weaver. -- PDF
* ON BEAUTY: A History of a Western Idea [editor] (Secker & Warburg, 2004). Translated by Alastair McEwen. -- PDF
* ON LITERATURE (Harcourt, 2004). Translated by Martin McLaughlin. -- ePUB
* ON UGLINESS (Harvill Secker, 2007). Translated by Alastair McEwen. -- PDF
* THE OPEN WORK (Harvard UP, 1989). Translated by Anna Cancogni. -- PDF
* THE SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT LANGUAGE (Blackwell, 1995). Translated by Jane Fentress. -- PDF
* SEMIOTICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE (Indiana UP, 1984). -- PDF
* SERENDIPITIES: Language and Lunacy (Columbia UP, 1998). Translated by William Weaver. -- PDF + ePUB
* A THEORY OF SEMIOTICS (Indiana UP, 1976). -- PDF
* TRAVELS IN HYPERREALITY: Essays (Harcourt, 1986). Translated by William Weaver. -- ePUB
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