The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word And Image - Hardcover

Shlain, Leonard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670878839 ISBN 13: 9780670878833

Verlag: Penguin, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Forging provocative connections among many fields, the author of Art and Physics demonstrates how alphabetic literacy caused the development of the brain's left half over the right, which affected the role and power of women. Tour.

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Reseña del editor

From the author of the bestselling "Art and Physics" comes a new book with breathtaking implications. Making remarkable connections across a wide range of subjects, including neurology, anthropology, history, and religion, "Leonard Shlain" argues that the development of alphabetic literacy itself reinforced the human brain's left hemisphere -- linear, abstract, predominantly masculine -- at the expense of its right -- holistic, concrete, visual, feminine. "The Alphabet Versus the Goddess" charts the connection between alphabetic literacy and monotheism; patriarchy and misogyny, and tracks the correlations between the rise and fall of literacy and the status of women in society, mythology, and religion.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0670878839
• ISBN 13: 9780670878833
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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