Kant and the platypus : essays on language and cognition / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.

London : Secker & Warburg, 1999.

viii, 464p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-452) and index.
Translation of: Kant e l'ornitorinco.

Umberto Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic and typically brilliant explorations, starting from the perceived data of common sense, from which flow stories or fables, often with animals, to expound a clear critique of Kant.

9780436410574 (hbk)

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