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Drucker, Johanna 1952-

The alphabetic labyrinth the letters in history and imagination Johanna Drucker - London New York Thames and Hudson 1995 - 320 páginas ilustraciones 26 cm.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 312-315) e índice

I. The Alphabet in Context. -- II. Origins and Historians. --
III. The Alphabet in Classical History, Philosophy and Divination. -- IV. Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism and Neo-Pythagoreanism: The Alphabet in the Hellenistic and Early Christian Era. -- V. Calligraphy, Alchemy and Ars Combinatoria in the Medieval Period. -- VI. The Kabbalah. -- VII. Rationalizing the Alphabet: Construction, Real Character and Philosophical Languages in the Renaissance. --
VIII. The Social Contract, Primitivism and Nationalism: The Alphabet in the 18th Century. -- IX. The Alphabet in the 19th Century: Advertising, Visible Speech and Narratives of History. --
X. 20th Century: Eclecticism, Technology and the Idiosyncratic Imagination

ISBN: 9780500016084

Temas--Término tópico:
Alfabeto--Historia
Escritura--Historia

Signatura topográfica: 411 / D794