by Umberto Eco · Fontana Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006863786
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«The Search for the Perfect Language» is Umberto Eco's historical-linguistic essay, published by Fontana Press in paperback (400 pages, in English).
Umberto Eco investigates the old belief in a perfect primeval language, that of the Garden of Eden, and in modern languages as degenerate descendants. The essay traces the attempts of philosophers, theologians and mystics to recover it from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance, up to artificial languages for machines.
The work was originally published in Italian in 1993 as «La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea»; the English translation by James Fentress appeared in 1997.
For readers interested in cultural history, philosophy of language and linguistics.
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.
