An edition of Vertigine della lista
(2009)
The infinity of lists
by Umberto Eco
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Reflections on how the idea of catalogs has changed over the centuries and how, from one period to another, it has expressed the spirit of the times. Companion to the author's History of beauty and On ugliness.
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Die unendliche Liste
Oct 01, 2011, dtv Verlagsgesellschaft
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The infinity of lists
2009, Rizzoli, Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
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0847832961 9780847832965
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Book Details
Table of Contents
The shield and its form
The list and the catalogue
The visual list
The ineffable
Lists of things
Lists of places
There are lists and lists
Exchanges between list and form
The rhetoric of enumeration
Lists of mirabilia
Collections and treasures
The Wunderkammer
Definition by list of properties versus definition by essence
The Aristotelian telescope
Excess, from Rabelais onwards
Coherent excess
Chaotic enumeration
Mass-media lists
Lists of vertigos
Exchanges between practical and poetic lists
A non-normal list.
Edition Notes
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition The infinity of lists, presented by the Musée du Louvre, Paris, in November 2009 and organized by Umberto Eco"--P. facing t.p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 406-407) and indexes.
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