Hitherto there has been no book that attempted to sum up the breadth of Umberto Eco's work and
it importance for the study of semiotics communication and cognition. There have been
anthologies and overviews of Eco's work within Eco Studies sometimes works in semiotics have
used aspects of Eco's work. Yet thus far there has been no overview of the work of Eco in the
breadth of semiotics. This volume is a contribution to both semiotics and Eco studies. The 40
scholars who participate in the volume come from a variety of disciplines but have all chosen
to work with a favorite quotation from Eco that they find particularly illustrative of the
issues that his work raises. Some of the scholars have worked exegetically placing the
quotation within a tradition others have determined the (epistemic) value of the quotation and
offered a critique while still others have seen the quotation as a starting point for
conceptual developments within a field of application. However each article within this volume
points toward the relevance of Eco -- for contemporary studies concerning semiotics
communication and cognition.
