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Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the Intellectual Critique of Popular Pseudoscience
"Umberto Eco’s critique of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code reflects a lifelong intellectual preoccupation with semiotics, conspiracy theories, and the public fascination with hermeticism. Rather than dismissing the blockbuster novel as mere entertainment, Eco used it as a prime contemporary example of "hermetic semiosis"—a mode of interpretation that sees secret connections everywhere and treats all texts as riddles to be decoded. Introduction to the Cultural Phenomenon and Eco’s Perspective When Dan Brown published The Da Vinci Code in 2003, the novel became an unprecedented global publishing phenomenon, selling tens of millions of copies and s..."
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