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Sanders, Barry ABC: Alphabetization of the Popular Mind
Vintage May 14, 1989 0-679-72192-4 / 9780679721925 Paperback Very Good
Maverick social critic Illich (Medical Nemesis) and medievalist Sanders hav e teamed to write a dense, frustrating essay on the way written language af fects our perception of ourselves and the world. They claim that the modern self is an "alphabetic construct": each of us weaves a cocoon of stories a bout ourselves, and we can only do so because of narrative literary traditi ons of the past several centuries. Ranging over the history of alphabets, i ntriguing word lore, a comparison of the Iliad with Serbian epics, the orig ins of autobiography and Huckleberry Finn, the authors reach sweeping, ill- defined conclusions. Lying and moral feigning, they argue, are possible bec ause memory is like a mental text. Human culture, in their ethnocentric vie w, was made possible by alphabetic writing. They fail to consider societies based on ideographic or hieroglyphic scripts. The final chapter, on Orwell ian newspeak, pinpoints the dangers of applying computer terminology to hum an interaction.
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