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  1. The letter and the cosmos
    how the alphabet has shaped the Western view of the world
    Autor*in: De Looze, Laurence
    Erschienen: [2016]; © 2016
    Verlag:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    "From our first ABCs to the Book of Revelation's statement that Jesus is "the Alpha and Omega," we see the world through our letters. More than just a way of writing, the alphabet is a powerful concept that has shaped Western civilization and our... mehr

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    "From our first ABCs to the Book of Revelation's statement that Jesus is "the Alpha and Omega," we see the world through our letters. More than just a way of writing, the alphabet is a powerful concept that has shaped Western civilization and our daily lives. In The Letter and the Cosmos, Laurence de Looze probes that influence, showing how the alphabet has served as a lens through which we conceptualize the world and how the world, and sometimes the whole cosmos, has been perceived as a kind of alphabet itself. Beginning with the ancient Greeks, he traces the use of alphabetic letters and their significance from Plato to postmodernism, offering a fascinating tour through Western history. A sharp and entertaining examination of how languages, letterforms, orthography, and writing tools have reflected our hidden obsession with the alphabet, The Letter and the Cosmos is illustrated with copious examples of the visual and linguistic phenomena which de Looze describes. Read it, and you'll never look at the alphabet the same way again."-- Introduction -- Ancient Greek letters -- Latin letters and the enduring influence of Roman scripts -- Christian letters : the middle ages -- The letters of humanism -- Baroque variations and the search for a universal language -- Logical letters : the alphabet in the age of reason -- The alphabets of the industrialized world -- From modern experiments to post-modern experiences -- Into the new millennium

     
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    Quelle: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel; Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781442628533; 9781442650602; 1442650605
    RVK Klassifikation: ER 745 ; AM 18000 ; NK 4950
    Schlagworte: Alphabet; Civilization, Western
    Umfang: xiii, 54 ungezählte Seiten, 218 Seiten, Illustrationen
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