On the Shoulders of Giants

by Umberto Eco and Alastair McEwen

Book Overview

A posthumous collection of essays by one of our greatest contemporary thinkers that provides a towering vision of Western culture.

In Umberto Eco's first novel, The Name of the Rose, Nicholas of Morimondo laments, "We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!" To which the protagonist, William of Baskerville, replies: "We are dwarfs, but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674240898
• ISBN13: 9780674240896
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 8.1"