The Resource The letter and the cosmos : how the alphabet has shaped the Western view of the world, Laurence de Looze
The letter and the cosmos : how the alphabet has shaped the Western view of the world, Laurence de Looze
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The item The letter and the cosmos : how the alphabet has shaped the Western view of the world, Laurence de Looze represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Mid-Continent Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
- Summary
- 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 perceived 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 copious 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 49 unnumbered pages of plates, 218 pages
- Isbn
- 9781442628533
- Label
- The letter and the cosmos : how the alphabet has shaped the Western view of the world
- Title
- The letter and the cosmos
- Title remainder
- how the alphabet has shaped the Western view of the world
- Statement of responsibility
- Laurence de Looze
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 perceived 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 copious 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
- Cataloging source
- NLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- De Looze, Laurence
- Dewey number
- 411
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Alphabet
- Civilization, Western
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The letter and the cosmos : how the alphabet has shaped the Western view of the world, Laurence de Looze
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-207) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn921863905
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 49 unnumbered pages of plates, 218 pages
- Isbn
- 9781442628533
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- 411 D383 ; XX-N ; [Z15BP032, #81, 4@24,95, wjm/RT ]
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 921863905
- (OCoLC)921863905
- Label
- The letter and the cosmos : how the alphabet has shaped the Western view of the world, Laurence de Looze
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-207) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn921863905
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 49 unnumbered pages of plates, 218 pages
- Isbn
- 9781442628533
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- 411 D383 ; XX-N ; [Z15BP032, #81, 4@24,95, wjm/RT ]
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 921863905
- (OCoLC)921863905
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