Umberto Eco gained world fame as the author of six novels, which have become eternal classics. However, he himself considers his scientific work much more important. The outstanding semiologist, a medievalist, a culturalist and mass mediaologist, an honorary professor of many universities, in an academic environment an eco figure is no less large -scale than in fiction.
One of the main spheres of his scientific activity is medievalism, and in this book IVF introduces non -specialists with the works of the largest thinkers of the Middle Ages – such as Foma Aquinsky, St. Bonaventure, Duns Cattle and William Okam, who dealt with aesthetics. What is beauty? What does it get of in nature, in art, in God, in man? Is there a true, objective, independent of the contemplator? The search for answers to these questions in the Middle Ages allows you to more deeply understand our own sense of beautiful and in a new evaluate various manifestations of beauty in the world around us.
Author
Eco Umberto
Editor
Gornostaev Barbara
Translator
Shurblev Alexander
Publisher
Corpus, 2022
Genre
Essays, letters, essays
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