The alphabetic labyrinth: the letters in history and imagination. /
Drucker Johanna
The alphabetic labyrinth: the letters in history and imagination. / J. Drucker - London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1999. - 320 p.; ill.; 26 cm
[The alphabet in context. Origins and historians. The alphabet in classical history, philosophy and divination. Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Neo-platonism and Neo-pythagoreanism: the alphabet in Hellenistic and Early Christian era. Calligraphy, alchemy and ars combinatoria in the medieval period. The Kabbalah. Rationalizing the alphabet: construction, real character and philosophical languages in the Renaissance. The social contract, primitivism and nationalism: the alphabet in the 18th century. The alphabet in the 19th century: advertising, visible speech and narratives of history. 20th century: eclecticism, technology and the idiosyncratic imagination]
Notes - p.: 309-311; Biblio. - p.: 312-315; Index - p.: 316-320
0500280681
Alphabet--history
Writing--history
003.334.1/D-83
The alphabetic labyrinth: the letters in history and imagination. / J. Drucker - London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1999. - 320 p.; ill.; 26 cm
[The alphabet in context. Origins and historians. The alphabet in classical history, philosophy and divination. Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Neo-platonism and Neo-pythagoreanism: the alphabet in Hellenistic and Early Christian era. Calligraphy, alchemy and ars combinatoria in the medieval period. The Kabbalah. Rationalizing the alphabet: construction, real character and philosophical languages in the Renaissance. The social contract, primitivism and nationalism: the alphabet in the 18th century. The alphabet in the 19th century: advertising, visible speech and narratives of history. 20th century: eclecticism, technology and the idiosyncratic imagination]
Notes - p.: 309-311; Biblio. - p.: 312-315; Index - p.: 316-320
0500280681
Alphabet--history
Writing--history
003.334.1/D-83