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Is Eco's perplexing `Pendulum' swinging to the other extreme?
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Foucault's Pendulum By Umberto Eco. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
$22.95.
Umberto Eco's new novel, Foucault's Pendulum, has all the
virtues and all the vices of the computer age out of which it was
born. A 630-page esoteric history of civilization and man's eternal
quest for power, it reads like the collective footnotes of a runaway
doctoral thesis. But while the book serves up a banquet of
information, it also has the curious effect of leaving the reader
feeling starved for knowledge and...
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A JOURNEY INTO THE OCCULT WITH UMBERTO ECO
The Boston Globe
; FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM By Umberto Eco; translated from the Italian by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 656 pp. $$22.95. The case of Umberto Eco is a curious one. Obviously an original and penetrating thinker, he can ascribe his literary renown to the novel, a
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Profile: Umberto Eco: The brain with a label
The Independent - London
; WHEN UMBERTO ECO started out as a scholar, at the University of Turin in the early Fifties, he decided to maximise his study time by living his non-academic life a third quicker than everyone else. He taught himself to walk faster, eat faster, shave faster. Forty years and 30 books later friends
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Italian fiction: Eco-logy. (Italian author Umberto Eco) (Books and Arts)
The Economist (US)
; Italian fiction Eco-logy THE honour of the Italian publishing world, best known until lately for its pornographic art books, has now been restored by one man: Umberto Eco. Mr Eco's first novel, The Name of the Rose (published in the English-speaking world in 1983), has been an international
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Marx, Foucault, Genealogy.(influence of Karl Marx on philosophy of Michel Foucault)(Critical Essay)
Polity
; For many of us as young intellectuals, an interest in Nietzsche of Bataille didn't represent a way of distancing oneself from Marxism or communism. Rather, it was almost the only path leading to what we, of course, thought could be expected of communism. --Michel Foucault (1) To hear Foucault tell
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Interpreting Foucault. (Michel Foucault)
Papers on Language & Literature
; When Michel Foucault was once asked whether he considered himself a postmodern thinker, he responded by saying that he did not know what the term postmodern meant. Foucault was simply indicating that he was not interested in the issue of postmodernism; it is therefore ironic that he should have
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