La rivalutazione della lista nella visione di Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco’s reconsideration of the LIST

Summary/Abstract: The present work analyses Umberto Eco’s reconsideration of the LIST. According to the author’s view and application of the term, the list lies at the basis of culture and is part of history and literature. Since what culture attempts to accomplish is to render the infinity comprehensible by describing its forms of manifestation and organising it, the list is primarily viewed as a means of creating order. Library catalogues, museum collections, encyclopedias and dictionaries are forms of the list meant to establish order in a chaotic universe. Today we place a lot of faith in progress and evolution, but resort to the list, which already existed in Homer’s Iliad, in the hope that we will manage to organise and exhaust the multitude of possibilities and the vast quantity of information that assaults us in every area of activity.

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