Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; xvi, 454, [1], colophon pages; Signed by Author
Publisher: Bompiani, 1997, Milano

[Book #15579]

Limited Edition of 500 numbered copies for the Aldus Club Associazione Internazionale di Bibliofilia (this one being #138) and First Edition/First Printing, Contursi A042a. Unread Fine condition with unopened pages, light blue pictorial matte wrappers with flaps. Signed and dedicated to James Contursi, his bibliographer, by author Umberto Eco on the first free end paper. A most attractive association copy from the personal library of James Contursi ;

This collection of essays is an erudite, detailed inquiry into the philosophy of mind and language. Professor Eco tackles Kant's question, How does the mind transform the manifold of sense perceptions into knowledge? As Eco puts it, What would Kant have done had he come upon a platypus? Philosophic thought from ancient to contemporary philosophers (Charles Sanders Peirce in particular) is weighed and evaluated