... things in their paintings. Why did you choose these subjects? Umberto Eco: The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and ... have their preferences. SPIEGEL: Still, you are famous for being able to explain your passions … Eco: … but not by talking about myself. Look, ever since the days of Aristotle, we have been trying to define things based on ...

... , as Eco intends. Lists are the origin of culture? Please say more! But Eco doesn’t really explain, in this interview, why lists — as opposed to other forms of ... ) with an unarticulated sense that some things go together — and perhaps our first conversations were about why. Eco goes on to say many wonderful things about why we have liked lists, including proposing that listing ...

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... It's part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order -- ... on places where chaos prevails? Eco: The list doesn't destroy culture; it creates it. Wherever you look in cultural history, ... complete things that can't be realistically completed? Eco: We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. ...

... .” As an inveterate list-maker myself I felt an instant affinity with Eco and, as I said, rather puffed up with self-importance of my own. How can you not feel part of something important when he says this: What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order–not always, but often. And how, as a ...

... and was recently interviewed by Der Spiegel: Umberto Eco: The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order -- not ... , does one face infinity? The list doesn't destroy culture; it creates it. Wherever you look in cultural history, you will find lists. In fact, ...