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Month: April 2016

Obituary: Umberto Eco (1932-2016)

Posted on 2016 April 42019 April 23 by Farouk Seif

By Marcel Danesi On February 19, 2016, one of the greatest contemporary semioticians, writers and intellectuals passed away, leaving behind both an enormous legacy and a void that will be hard to fill. One cannot mention semiotics without mentioning his name in the same breath. With the late Thomas A. Sebeok, with whom he collaborated…

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