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That got your attention, didn't it? Anyway, Umberto Eco has been grilled by Der Spiegel, and this quote was just dying to be taken out of context.  So I have taken the opportunity: SPIEGEL: But you also said that lists can establish order. So, do both order and anarchy apply? That would make the Internet, and the lists that the search engine Google creates, perfect for you. Eco: Yes, ...

... or pedophilia."" align="center" border="0" height="250" hspace="0" width="520" /> Italian novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco, who is curating a new exhibition at the Louvre in Paris, talks to SPIEGEL about the place lists hold in the history of culture, the ways we try to avoid thinking about ...

Italian novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco, who is curating a new exhibition at the Louvre in Paris, talks to SPIEGEL about the place lists hold in the history of culture, the ways we try to avoid thinking about death and why Google is dangerous for young people. SPIEGEL: Mr. Eco, you are considered one of the world's great scholars, and now you are opening an exhibition at the Louvre, one ...

"We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die." One of many fascinating comments by Italian novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco. Via The Hidden Persuader

... University, I still manage to have professor-like crushes on men I've never met, and Umberto Eco comes first and foremost on my list. He wrote the bestselling The Name of the Rose novel, is the preeminent semiotician, and more recently has written treatises On Beauty and On Ugliness. So how chuffed am I that he's curating an exhibition at the Louvre as part of its recent shake up? Very. In ...