This thinker mocked the "Followers of the Veil" fo
This thinker mocked the "Followers of the Veil" for allowing the Inferno to convince them that Dante was a secret Templar in a set of lectures collected along with a response describing the "Pragmatist's Progress" from Richard Rorty. He called Ulysses a "summa turned upside down" in his The Aesthetics of Chaosmos, while his best known aesthetic work drew from Richards and Ogden's The Meaning of Meaning to extoll "openness" as central goal of art. This author of Interpretation and Overinterpretation decried Casablanca as a random assortment of unrelated concepts in a collection updated as Travels in Hyperreality, his Faith in Fakes, which draws from his extensive study of semiotics. For 10 points, identify this Italian thinker who incorporated his philosophical ideas into works like The Prague Cemetery, The Island of the Day Before, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Name of the Rose.
This thinker mocked the "Followers of the Veil" for allowing the Inferno to convince them that Dante was a secret Templar in a set of lectures collected along with a response describing the "Pragmatist's Progress" from Richard Rorty.
Umberto Eco