TABLE OF CONTENTS

FRONTISPIECE

GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE LIBRARY OF LIVING PHILOSOPHERS

FOUNDER’S GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE LIBRARY OF LIVING PHILOSOPHERS

ADVISORY BOARD

PREFACE

PART ONE:    INTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF UMBERTO ECO AND “WHY PHILOSOPHY?”

SAMPLE OF ECO’S HANDWRITING

INTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF UMBERTO ECO

“WHY PHILOSOPHY?” BY UMBERTO ECO

PART TWO:    DESCRIPTIVE AND CRITICAL ESSAYS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF UMBERTO ECO WITH REPLIES

I.    MEDIEVAL STUDIES

        1.    JOHN MARENBON: Umberto Eco and Medieval Aesthetics

                         REPLY TO JOHN MARENBON

        2.    COSTANTINO MARMO: Eco’s Semiotics and Medieval Philosophy

II.    SEMIOTICS, COGNITION, AND EPISTEMOLOGY

        3.    DAVID BOERSEMA: Negotiation and Regulation: Eco on Knowing

                         REPLY TO DAVID BOERSEMA

        4.    DONALD PHILLIP VERENE: The Pursuit of the Pursuit of Truth

                         REPLY TO DONALD PHILLIP VERENE

        5.    PIERO POLIDORO: The Reasonable’s the Limit

        6.    MORANA ALAČ: The Model Reader and the Mundanity of Reading Practices

III.    SEMIOTICS, COGNITION, AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE

        7.    PATRIZIA VIOLI: Encyclopedia: Criticality and Actuality

        8.    CLAUDIO PAOLUCCI: Eco, Peirce, and the Anxiety of Influence: The Most Kantian of Thinkers

        9.    ANDREA VALLE: Modes of Sign Production

      10.    ROSSELLA FABBRICHESI: Eco, Peirce, and Iconism: A Philosophical Inquiry

                         REPLY TO ROSSELLA FABBRICHESI

      11.    JEAN PETITOT: Semiotic Enargeia: A Tribute to Umberto Eco

      12.    ERNIE LEPORE AND MATTHEW STONE: Eco, Metaphor, and Interpretation: A Cure for the Common Code

                         REPLY TO ERNIE LEPORE AND MATTHEW STONE

IV.    TRANSLATION

      13.    SIRI NERGAARD: Translation: A Question of Experience. On Umberto Eco’s Translation Theory

                         REPLY TO SIRI NERGAARD

      14.    EDOARDO CRISAFULLI: Nomen Est Omen: Eco’s Reflections on Translation

                         REPLY TO EDOARDO CRISAFULLI

V.    PHILOSOPHY AND THE SEMIOTICS OF LITERATURE

      15.    WALTER STEPHENS: The Lover of Books: Eco’s Medieval and Early Modern Reading

                         REPLY TO WALTER STEPHENS

      16.    LUBOMÍR DOLEŽEL: Eco’s Narratology

      17.    ULLA MUSARRA-SCHRØDER: “Encyclopedia” and “Possible Worlds”: History, Fiction, and Falsification in the Novels of Umberto Eco

VI.    PHILOSOPHY IN THE NOVELS

      18.    NORMA BOUCHARD: Umberto Eco’s Semiotic Imaginary

                         REPLY TO NORMA BOUCHARD

      19.    HELEN BENNETT: Reading Lessons in Foucault’s Pendulum

      20.    LUCIO ANGELO PRIVITELLO: “I Have Wandered in a Face . . .”

VII.    POSTMODERNISM AND MASS CULTURE

      21.    CHARLES JENCKS: Of Bowls, Magnetized Marbles, and Umberto Eco

                         REPLY TO CHARLES JENCKS

      22.    BRIAN MCHALE: Five or Six Postmodernisms

                         REPLY TO BRIAN MCHALE

      23.    LUCRECIA ESCUDERO CHAUVEL: Cultural Studies, Ideology, and Media Texts

PART THREE:    BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF UMBERTO ECO

INDEX