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ABC
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- Book Synopsis
- In ABC... philosopher and cultural analyst Ivan Illich and medieval scholar and literary critic Barry Sanders have produced an original, meticulous and provocative study of the advent, spread and present decline of literacy. They explore he impact of the alphabet on fundamental thought processes and attitudes, on memory, on political groupings and religous and cultural expectations. Their examination of the present erosion of literacy in the new technological languages of 'newspeak' and 'uniquack' and they point out how new attitudes to language are altering our world viewour sense of self and of community.
- About The Author
- Ivan illich is the author of Celebration of Awareness, Tools for Conviviality, The Right to Useful Unemployment, Energy and Equity, Limits to Medicine, Shadow Work, Gender, H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness, ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind, Disabling Professions, Deschooling Society and In the Mirror of the Past: Lectures and Addresses 1978-1990.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780714528915
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Boyars, (27 October 2000)
- Number of Pages
- 168
- Weight
- 290 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 215 x 135 x 22 mm
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