by Umberto Eco · C.H.Beck · tapa dura · ISBN 9783406378881
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«Die Suche nach der vollkommenen Sprache» is Umberto Eco's essay, published by C.H.Beck in 1994 in hardcover (388 pages, in German).
Umberto Eco traces the history of the European search for a perfect language, from the pre-Babel tongue to artificial languages, with stops at the Kabbalah, Dante and Llull, Esperanto and auxiliary languages. Against absolute monolingualism and absolute polylingualism, Umberto Eco proposes a community sensitive to the spirit of each language.
Work originally published as «La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea»; the German translation is by Burkhart Kroeber and the edition belongs to the «Europa bauen» series.
For readers interested in the philosophy of language, linguistics and European cultural history.
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.
