Publisher's Synopsis
The first English collection of Eco's pre-semiotic writings on modern art, literature and culture. It explores a set of values in aesthetics which remain central to critical theory, and includes essays on Luigi Pareyson, television, mass culture and the politics of art. This serves as an introduction to the author's ideas and thoughts.;Umberto Eco is a literary critic, author of many critical works and of the novel "The Name of the Rose".
