by Umberto Eco · LUMEN · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426410399
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«Apocalípticos e integrados» is the philosophical essay by Umberto Eco, published by Lumen in paperback (403 pages, in Spanish).
Umberto Eco analyzes mass culture and the two opposing stances towards it: the apocalyptics, who see it as a threat to high culture, and the integrated, who consider it an opportunity for cultural generalization. He examines the structure of bad taste, the reading of comics, the myth of Superman and the role of audiovisual media.
Work from 1964 originally published in Italian as «Apocalittici e integrati».
Readers of essays and philosophy interested in mass culture, the media and cultural theory.
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement.
