Serendipities
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Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (originally published in English, translated by William Weaver) is a 1998 book by Umberto Eco, discussing the history of linguistics and pre-modern and Early Modern concepts of a perfect language and the confusion of tongues, partly overlapping with the material presented in his 1993 La ricerca della lingua perfetta.
chapters:
- The Force of Falsity (based on a 1994 lecture held at Bologna University)
- Languages in Paradise
- From Marco Polo to Leibniz: Stories if Intellectual Misunderstandings
- The Language of the Austral Land
- The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre
Editions:
- Columbia University Press (1998) ISBN 0231111347.
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999
- Harvest Books (1999) ISBN 0156007517.
