20th century · 1932–2016
Who influenced Umberto Eco?
Influences
Semiotics of the open work and the limits of interpretation.
Umberto Eco was influenced by Louis Hjelmslev. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Umberto Eco?
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher and semiotician who taught for most of his life at the University of Bologna. He is best known for The Name of the Rose (1980), a historical mystery that weaves semiotics, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory into fiction, and for Foucault's Pendulum (1988), about the history of occultism.
He also wrote children's books and translations, and from 1985 a regular column in L'Espresso. His 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism", which lists fourteen general features of fascist ideologies, has drawn new attention in the 21st century.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Umberto Eco?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Louis Hjelmslev 1899–1965
The line of teachers behind Umberto Eco
The longest documented line of influence ending at Umberto Eco runs 3 generations back, to Ferdinand de Saussure.
Two steps away from Umberto Eco
Indirect influences
- Through Louis Hjelmslev: Roman Jakobson
Contemporaries of Umberto Eco
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Umberto Eco, with no direct line between them.
- John Searle 1932–2025
- Richard Rorty 1931–2007
- Jacques Derrida 1930–2004
- Gérard Genette 1930–2018
- Jürgen Habermas 1929–2026
- Edward Said 1935–2003
- Alasdair MacIntyre 1929–2025
- Bernard Williams 1929–2003
Umberto Eco by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 3
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 115 — #8 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Legendary
Schools and lineages
Questions about Umberto Eco
- Who influenced Umberto Eco?
- Louis Hjelmslev.
- Who did Umberto Eco influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Umberto Eco.
- When did Umberto Eco live?
- 1932–2016. The map files Umberto Eco under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Umberto Eco card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Umberto Eco in 115 languages, which makes it a Legendary card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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- Albert Camus 1913–1960
- Max Weber 1864–1920
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- Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951
- Martin Heidegger 1889–1976
- Antonio Gramsci 1891–1937