In a work with profound implications for the electronic age, Ivan Illich explores how revolutions in technology affect the way we read and understand text.
Examining the Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor, Illich celebrates the culture of the book from the twelfth century to the present. Hugh's work, at once an encyclopedia and guide to the art of reading, reveals a twelfth-century revolution as sweeping as that brought about by the invention of the printing press and equal in magnitude only to the changes of the computer age the transition from reading as a vocal activity done in the monastery to reading as a predominantly silent activity performed by and for individuals.
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- ISBN10 0226372359
- ISBN13 9780226372358
- Publish Date 15 November 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 February 2001
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English