FAITH in FAKES: Travels in Hyperreality by UMBERTO ECO 1995
FAITH in FAKES: Travels in Hyperreality. Umberto Eco (Author), Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, 1995.
Social Science
ISBN: 9780749396282
About America's obsession with
counterfeit reality. A collection of articles and essays about Italian ideologies.
The book is a collection of articles from mainly Italian newspapers and magazines about the wider subject of human consciousness, including Eco's own subject of semiotics. The subjects of the main essay includes modern Americana such as wax museums, Superman and holography, and the other articles discuss a number of other subjects, including football, the Middle Ages, Jim Jones and the People's Temple, and tight jeans.
Secure binding with clean pages and a lightly rubbed cover with mild soil. Softcover book with 306 pages.