ALTHOUGH DESCRIBED AS ‘editor’ of this attractive and intriguing book, Umberto Eco is decidedly its author. The same mixture of academic instinct and narrative talent that characterises his other non-fiction is present here again, and with it the same wide and reflective sweep. The mixture and the sweep are sure to offend purists among scholars, for whom the measure of fitness in such a work is the inverse relationship between narrowness of scope and number of footnotes – the narrower the scope and the larger the number of footnotes, the better.

Literary Review

Oct 2004

Categories

A C Grayling

In The Mind’s Eye

The Shadows Lengthen

Naked at a Party

All You Need To Know

Objectively Speaking

Brain Matters

Evolutionary Minds

Apocalypse Now

A Man Of Gravity

Missives from the Monastry

Man and Beast

A Stitch In Time

Atomic Angst

To Think for Oneself

A Theory to Believe In

Herbert’s Law

In Two Minds

Crisis? What Crisis?

Touching the Third Rail

Simply Hideous

Locke’s Laundry

The Country of the Word

Crossroads in Cairo

Passion & Possibility