by Umberto Eco · Altaya · tapa dura · ISBN 9788448712570
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«La búsqueda de la lengua perfecta» is the philosophical essay by Umberto Eco, published by Altaya in hardback (318 pages, in Spanish).
Umberto Eco traces the history of the ideal of a universal language, from the Tower of Babel to modern projects for artificial languages. Eco analyses the philosophical, religious and political reasons for this aspiration and shows how the longing for a perfect language expresses the human desire for unity and understanding.
Volume 11 of the Grandes Obras del Pensamiento Contemporáneo collection.
For readers interested in the philosophy of language, the history of ideas and attempts to create artificial languages.
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement.
