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Serendipities

By Umberto Eco

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Serendipities

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The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions. 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. In Eco's words, 'even errors can produce interesting side effects'. Eco's book shows how: -- believers in a flat earth helped Columbus accidentally discover America -- the medieval myth of Prester John, the Christian king in Asia, assisted the European drive eastward -- 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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
176
Release Date:
1999-04-01
Publication Date:
2002-05-02
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0752826476
ISBN13:
9780753808788
Weight:
172 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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