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Умберто Эко и массме- диа в современном мире (Памяти выдающегося итальянского интеллектуала)
Umberto Eco and mass media in the modern world (In memory of the outstanding Italian intellectual)

Author(s): Anastasiya O. Salandina, Vasily I. Chernoperov
Subject(s): Media studies, Social Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, Hermeneutics
Published by: Ивановский государственный университет
Keywords: U. Eco; intellectuals; mass media; Internet; modern world;

Summary/Abstract: The article shows the views of the world famous Italian Umberto Eco (1932—2016) on the problems of mass media. Provided is the short biography of the intellectual. Special attention is paid on the last novel of the thinker ‘Numero Zero’. On the basis of intellectuals / intelligentsia members classification model created and developed by V. L. Chernoperov together with Professor S. M. Usmanov the authors make an attempt to define U. Eco's place in the world intellectual, social and political space of the second half of the 20th—21st centuries.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 63-80
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Russian