Nathan's review
Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
by Umberto Eco
Nathan's review
Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book) by Umberto Eco
Nathan's review
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philosophy
Humorous cultural theory. Sometimes Eco gets down to some heavy stuff, like in his critique of Foucalt's and Barthes's Language=power theories. But many of these essays read like intellectual and entertaining editorials (many of them were written for Italian newspapers), without the dry, dumbed-down polemical thrust you might encounter in the New York Times. Barthes "Mythologies" is approximate.
