Volume 47, Number 10 · June 15, 2000
Sign Language
By Colin McGinn
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition
by Umberto Eco, Translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen
Harcourt Brace, 464 pp., $28.00
It is perhaps fitting that a book that frets about the limits and possibilities of interpretation should be hard to pin down. The title itself is a riddle crying out to be deciphered. Eco anticipates this on page one:
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