Travels in HyperReality

<p><strong>A scintillating collection of writings by one of the most influential thinkers of our times. --<em>Los Angeles Times</em></strong></p><p>With the same wit learning and lively intelligence that delighted readers of <em>The Name of the Rose</em> and <em>Foucault's Pendulum</em> Umberto Eco entertains and intrigues once again this time on subjects ranging from pop culture to philosophy from the People's Temple to Thomas Aquinas from <em>Casablanca</em> to Roland Barthes. Acute ironic and often very funny these timeless essays open up fresh worlds of possibility and new frameworks of existence. A classic work.</p><p><strong>Eco combines scholarship with a love of paradox and a quirky sometimes outrageous sense of humor. --<em>The Atlantic</em></strong></p><p><strong><em></em>Amusing and often brilliant.</strong><strong> --John Updike <em>The New Yorker</em></strong></p>