The letter and the cosmos how the alphabet has shaped the Western view of the world
"From our first ABCs to the Book of Revelation's statement that Jesus is "the Alpha and Omega," we see the world through our letters. More than just a way of writing, the alphabet is a powerful concept that has shaped Western civilization and our daily lives. In The Letter and th...
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
PREFACE IX
ABBREVIATIONS XV
ILLUSTRATIONS XVII
1 INTRODUCTION 3
2 ANCIENT GREEK LETTERS 19
3 LATIN LETTERS AND THE ENDURING INFLUENCE OF ROMAN SCRIPTS 32
4 CHRISTIAN LETTERS: THE MIDDLE AGES 49
5 THE LETTERS OF HUMANISM 67
6 BAROQUE VARIATIONS AND THE SEARCH FOR A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE 83
7 LOGICAL LETTERS: THE ALPHABET IN THE AGE OF REASON 102
8 THE ALPHABETS OF THE INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD 118
9 FROM MODERN EXPERIMENTS TO POST-MODERN EXPERIENCES 135
10 INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM 165
NOTES 179
WORKS CITED 195
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 209
INDEX 211
Contents
Preface ix
Abbreviations xv
Illustrations xvii
1 Introduction 3
2 Ancient Greek Letters 19
3 Latin Letters and the Enduring Influence of Roman Scripts 32
4 Christian Letters: The Middle Ages 49
5 The Letters of Humanism 67
6 Baroque Variations and the Search for a Universal Language 83
7 Logical Letters: The Alphabet in the Age of Reason 102
8 The Alphabets of the Industrialized World 118
9 From Modern Experiments to Post-Modern Experiences 135
10 Into the New Millennium 165
Notes 179
Works Cited 195
Illustration Credits 209
Index 211
From our first ABCs to the Book of Revelation s statement that Jesus is
the Alpha and Omega, we see the world through our letters. More
than just a way of writing, the alphabet is a powerful concept that has
shaped Western civilization and our daily lives. In The Letter and the
Cosmos, Laurence de Looze probes that influence, showing how the
alphabet has served as a lens through which we conceptualize the world
and how the world, and sometimes the whole cosmos, has been per-
ceived as a kind of alphabet itself. Beginning with the ancient Greeks,
he traces the use of alphabetic letters and their significance from Plato
to postmodernism, offering a fascinating tour through Western history.
A sharp and entertaining examination of how languages, letterforms,
orthography, and writing tools have reflected our hidden obsession
with the alphabet, The Letter and the Cosmos is illustrated with copi-
ous examples of the visual and linguistic phenomena which de Looze
describes. Read it, and you ll never look at the alphabet the same way
again.
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