Ebook: ABC: the alphabetization of the popular mind

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.;Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- I. Words and History -- II. Memory -- III. Text -- IV. Translation and Language -- V. The Self -- VI. Untruth and Narration -- VII. From Taught Mother Tongue to Newspeak and Uniquack -- Postscript: Silence and the We -- Select Bibliography -- Copyright.