From the tree to the labyrinth. Historical research of the sign and interpretation

Eco is known to the domestic reader primarily as a writer as the author of original work on medieval aesthetics, as a widely erudite historian-mediyevist. In this book, the idea of ​​Eco is revealed at the new face: it appears before us as a deep connoisseur of the history of semiotics, the problems of which he considers in a wide context of the development of European philosophical thought from the Middle Ages to the present day. The book is a series of essays in which the most important, from the point of view of ECO, the problems of history and theory of sign and semi-grade. This book opens a series of books "Semiotika", within which, following the eco, the theoretical works of Yu.M. will begin to go out Lotman.
Edition will be very useful to philosophers, cultivologists, religions, as well as all interested in the history of European philosophical thought