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Serendipities

Serendipities
Umberto Eco

Serendipities: Language and Lunacy is a 1998 collection of essays by Umberto Eco. Dealing with the history of linguistics and Early Modern concepts of a perfect language, the material in the book overlaps with La ricerca della lingua perfetta. As Eco explains it in his preface, serendipity is the positive outcome of some ill-conceived idea.

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“After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia.”

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Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (1998)

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