The alphabet versus the goddess : the conflict between word and image

著者

    • Shlain, Leonard

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The alphabet versus the goddess : the conflict between word and image

Leonard Shlain

(Penguin books, History, Gender)

Penguin books, 2000

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注記

Bibliography: p. [445]-453

Includes index

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内容説明

Could the invention of writing, and then the alphabet, have been largely responsible for a decisive shift towards patriarchy and misogyny? in this book, the author draws on brain anatomy and anthropology, religion and history, to develop his challenging thesis. Literacy, he argues, encourages "masculine" linear, reductionist and abstract modes of thought which tend to degrade women. (The witch-hunts of the Renaissance coincided with the rapid expansion of printing). Yet the last century has been the rise of visual communications media such as photography, film, television and the Internet. Regardless of their content, such innovations are reconfiguring our brains and producing a climate far more amenable to feminine values. it is only by acknowledging the downside of literacy that we can incorporate its benefits into a culture rooted in "the right-hemispheric values of tolerance, caring and respect for nature.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA46581561
  • ISBN
    • 0140281835
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    London
  • ページ数/冊数
    xiv, 464 p.
  • 大きさ
    20 cm
  • 親書誌ID
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