Umberto Eco: Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction

Acknowledgements. Note on References. Introduction. 1. Form, Interpretation and the Open Work. 2. A Critical View of Culture: Mass Communications, Politics and the Avant--garde. 3. Introducing the Study of Signs. 4. A Study of Semiotics. 5. Semiotics Bounded and Unbound. 6. Theory and Fiction. 7. Secrets, Paranoia and Critical Reading. 8. Kant, the Platypus and the Horizon. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index.