How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now (Hardcover)

Walter Stephens

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2023

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Hardcover. A sweeping history of how writing has preserved cultural practices, traditions, and knowledge throughout human history.In How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now, Walter Stephens condenses the massive history of the written word into an accessible, engaging narrative. The history of writing is not merely a record of technical innovationsfrom hieroglyphics to computersbut something far richer: a chronicle of emotional engagement with written culture whose long arc intimates why the humanities are crucial to society. For five millennia, myths and legends provided fascinating explanations for the origins and uses of writing. These stories overflowed with enthusiasm about fabled personalities (both human and divine) and their adventures with capturing speech and preserving memory. Stories recounted how and why an ancient Sumerian king, a contemporary of Gilgamesh, invented the cuneiform writing systemor alternatively, how the earliest Mesopotamians learned everything from a hybrid man-fish. For centuries, Jews and Christians debated whether Moses or God first wrote the Ten Commandments. Throughout history, some myths of writing were literary fictions. Plato's tale of Atlantis supposedly emerged from a vast Egyptian archive of world history. Dante's vision of God as one infinite book inspired Borges's fantasy of the cosmos as a limitless library, while the nineteenth century bequeathed Mary Shelley's apocalyptic tale of a world left with innumerable books but only one surviving reader. Stephens presents a comprehensive history of the written word and demonstrates how writing has preserved and shaped human life since the Bronze Age. These stories, their creators, and their preservation have inspired wonder and an endless appetite for historical revelation. These stories, their creators, and their preservation have inspired wonder and an endless appetite for historical revelation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now (Hardcover)
Autore
Walter Stephens
Editore
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
Condizione
new
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Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1421446642
ISBN 13
9781421446646

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