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Serendipities
- Language And Lunacy
Engelsk Paperback
Serendipities
- Language And Lunacy
Engelsk Paperback

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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

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
176
ISBN-13:
9780753808788
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0753808781
Udg. Dato:
2 maj 2002
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
131mm
Højde:
195mm
Forlag:
Orion Publishing Co
Oplagsdato:
2 maj 2002
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge