Umberto Eco about women philosophers

On February 19^th, it became known, that famous Italian historian, philosopher and writer Umberto Eco died at the age of 84. He is considered as the main representative of postmodernism in literature and philosophy and was known for his research in the field of semiotics.

His novels “Name of the rose” and “Faucaut’s pendulum” brought worldwide fame to him, though Eco said about his literary activity: “I am a philosopher. I write novels only on weekends”. His latest literary work “The Prague Cemetery” was published in 2010.

Eco taught theory of culture and aesthetics in Universities of Milan, Tunin and Florence. His works “History of beauty” and “Disgrace history” are very famous. He was doctor of many Universities. He wrote a large number of essays on philosophy, linguistics, medieval artistic ability, had many publicist articles in the press. We are representing a historical review on women philosophers published in El Mundo newspaper back in 2004:

“Looking through the most famous encyclopedia, I have not found any information about women philosophers except Hepatia. And that is not because of the fact that there were no wise women in the history thinking about knowledge and principles of being, the origin and structure of the Universe. Simply male philosophers preferred to burry women philosophers at the same time probably privatizing their philosophical studies”, – writes Umberto Eco, referring to the book “Women philosophers in the history” published in France. Studying ancient manuscripts of 17^th century its author discovered names of more than 65 philosophers.

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