As you may or may not be able to tell, I've been on a mild Umberto Eco kick lately and would like eventually to get around to reading his work. A kind of constructivist postmodernism (?) as the link below suggests, as a response to Derrida/Foucault/Lyotard's deconstructivism. At the same time, I'm reading Dostoevsky's "Demons," seeing some clear parallels between Dost. and Eco, in terms of their response to prevailing "liberal" thought of the time (the term is somewhat misplaced for Eco's contemporaries), pointing toward hope in the face of meaninglessness. Anyhoo, can't wait to jump into this fairly thorough page, based on Cambridge lectures on Eco.
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