The vertigo of lists

Name: The vertigo of lists
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SKU: 9788501090331
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Autor: Umberto Eco

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Sinopse

Lists are the first and most fundamental form of information organization. But, paradoxically, they are also the way in which even the most complex forms of classification are presented. Menus, websites, catalogs, and other archives govern Western culture. There are tables of saints, enumerations of fabulous creatures, inventories of medicinal plants, lists of treasures. There are practical lists, which are finite, like the catalogs of books in a library; others suggest countless magnitudes and, therefore, a disturbing sense of infinity. In *The Vertigo of Lists*, Umberto Eco, one of today's most acclaimed intellectuals, explores key questions of each classification, offering an important lesson for information architecture. How do we create a rigorous classification? Is there only one criterion for classification? And, if more than one, which one to choose? Eco also reminds us that the dream of all science and philosophy, since its Greek origins, has been to know and define the essence of things. To list them. The aesthetics of lists permeates the history of art and literature. But *The Vertigo of Lists* doesn't just analyze a rarely investigated literary form. It shows, above all, how the arts are capable of suggesting infinite lists, even when representation appears severely limited by the frame. In this beautiful illustrated edition, Umberto Eco reflects on how the idea of catalogs has changed over the centuries. And how, from one period to the next, it expressed the spirit of each era. With his usual perspicacity and erudition, Umberto Eco poses these and other questions. And, in tow, both the anthological texts and the extraordinary illustrations of this book take us on a surprising journey. This essay is accompanied by a literary anthology and a vast selection of artworks, illustrating and analyzing the texts presented. A captivating intellectual and sensorial adventure, this volume continues the editorial project of *The History of Beauty* and *The History of Ugliness*.