![]() ![]() ![]() No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. All pages are undamaged, with very minimal creasing, but no tearing. Very minimal damage to the cover, including very minimal scuff marks and creasing, but no holes or tears. Publication City/Country: London, United KingdomĪ vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. the myth of the Rosicrucians affected the Masons, leading in turn to the widespread belief in a Jewish masonic plot to dominate the world and other forms of paranoid anti-Semitism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. the medieval myth of Prester John, the Christian king in Asia, assisted the European drive eastward ![]() believers in a flat earth helped Columbus accidentally discover America ![]() In Eco's words, 'even errors can produce interesting side effects'. : Serendipities (9780231111348) by Eco, Umberto and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Umberto Eco offers a dazzling tour of intellectual history, illuminating the ways in which we project the familiar onto the strange to make sense of the world. SERENDIPITIES is an iconoclastic, dazzlingly erudite and witty demonstration, by one of the world's most brilliant thinkers, of how myths and lunacies can produce historical developments of no small significance. Serendipities is a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, a brilliant exposition of how unanticipated truths often spring from false ideas. The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions. Serendipities: Language and Lunacy by Umberto Eco ![]()
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