In the Vineyard of the Text: Commentary to Hugh's "Didascalicon" - Hardcover

Illich, Ivan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226372359 ISBN 13: 9780226372358

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1993

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In a work with profound implications for the electronic age, Ivan Illich explores how revolutions in technology affect the way we read and understand text.

Examining the Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor, Illich celebrates the culture of the book from the twelfth century to the present. Hugh's work, at once an encyclopedia and guide to the art of reading, reveals a twelfth-century revolution as sweeping as that brought about by the invention of the printing press and equal in magnitude only to the changes of the computer age--the transition from reading as a vocal activity done in the monastery to reading as a predominantly silent activity performed by and for individuals.

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In a work with profound implications for the electronic age, Ivan Illich explores how revolutions in technology affect the way we read and understand text.

Examining the Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor, Illich celebrates the culture of the book from the twelfth century to the present. Hugh's work, at once an encyclopedia and guide to the art of reading, reveals a twelfth-century revolution as sweeping as that brought about by the invention of the printing press and equal in magnitude only to the changes of the computer age--the transition from reading as a vocal activity done in the monastery to reading as a predominantly silent activity performed by and for individuals.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0226372359
• ISBN 13: 9780226372358
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176