The alphabet versus the goddess : the conflict between word and image / Leonard Shlain.
Shlain, Leonard.
1998
P211.7 .S57 1998 (Mapit)
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Title
The alphabet versus the goddess : the conflict between word and image / Leonard Shlain.
Author
Shlain, Leonard.
ISBN
0670878839 (alk. paper)
9780670878833 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Viking, 1998.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 464 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
P211.7 .S57 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.2/244
Summary
The author "proposes that alphabetic literacy--the process of reading itself--fundamentally rewired the human brain, with profound consequences for culture, history, and religion. ... Shlain argues that, with the advent of literacy, the very act of reading an alphabet reinforced the brain's left hemisphere--linear, abstract, predominantly masculine--at the expense of the right--holistic, concrete, visual, feminine. ... [This book] tracks the correlations between the rise and fall of literacy and the changing status of women in society, mythology, and religions throughout European history, and in other cultures as well."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-453) and index.
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2. Hunters/Gatherers
3. Right Brain/Left Brain
4. Males: Death/Females: Life
5. Nonverbal/Verbal
6. Cuneiform/Marduk
7. Hieroglyphs/Isis
8. Aleph/Bet
9. Hebrews/Israelites
10. Abraham/Moses
11. Thera/Matzah
12. Adam/Eve
13. Cadmus/Alpha
14. Sappho/Ganymede
15. Dionysus/Apollo
16. Athens/Sparta
17. Lingam/Yoni
18. Birth/Death
19. Yin/Yang
20. Taoism/Confucianism
21. B.C./A.D.
22. Jesus/Christ
23. Death/Rebirth
24. Patriarchs/Heretics
25. Reason/Madness
26. Illiteracy/Celibacy, 500-1000
27. Muslin Veils/Muslim Words
28. Mystic/Scholastic, 1000-1300
29. Humanist/Egoist, 1300-1500
30. Protestant/Catholic
31. Faith/Hate
32. Sorcery/Science
33. Positive/Negative, 1648-1899
34. ID/Superego, 1900-1945
35. Page/Screen, 1945-2000

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