Ebook: Eco's Chaosmos: From the Middle Ages to Postmodernity

List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 From Cosmos to Chaosmos: Eco and Joyce; Between Order and Chaos: A Theory of Semiotics; The Middle Ages of Umberto Eco; Analogy as Epistemological Tool: Nicholas of Cusa; Into the Renaissance: Giordano Bruno and the Logic of Symbols; From Logic to Wit: Emanuele Tesauro and the Power of Metaphor; The Evolution of Eco's Thought; 3 Semiotics as a Solution: From a Theory of Aesthetics to the Study of Culture; Pareyson and Aesthetic Theory; From Semiology to Semiotics; The Study of Mass Culture.