by Umberto Eco · Carl Hanser Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783446146815
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«Über Spiegel und andere Phänomene» is Umberto Eco's essay collection, published by Carl Hanser Verlag in hardback (261 pages, in German).
A compilation of Umberto Eco's writings from 1972 to 1985 for conferences, debates and prefaces. It addresses the sign, representation and image through mirrors, theatre, writing and dreams, and extends to seriality in the arts, science fiction, method in the human sciences, the philosophy of play and communication theory.
German translation by Burkhart Kroeber of the Italian original «Sugli specchi e altri saggi»; 1988 edition.
For readers interested in philosophy, communication theory and Umberto Eco's cultural reflections.
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.
