Oralità e scrittura. Le tecnologie della parola

When I first read this book I was blown away by how I'd never considered what seems absolutely obvious: that the introduction of a technology like writing--whereby the relationship between people and their medium of thought, language , is radically transformed--would have profound effects upon the ve Leggi tutto

For those of us raised into the literate modern world, it is easy to forget the written word is a technology invented by human beings. Like all technologies, literacy has the potential to deepen our appreciation of the world and ourselves. But it also has the potential to alienate us from lived real Leggi tutto

Extremely interesting. Some passages are fastidiously repetitive (one or two times I even guessed what it was going to say next) but it offers a lor of illuminating considerations about how and how deeply writing changed our world and our minds.

Walter Ong believes that writing is the single most important technology created by man, because it has had the greatest effect in shaping human consciousness. He believes that individuals and cultures can be fundamentally divided between those that are primary oral (have never known writing) and th Leggi tutto

Incredibly fascinating little book. Its content is so rich and wide-reaching that I'd almost go so far as to say that all humanities scholars should have it on their shelves. You're absolutely guaranteed to learn a lot from it no matter who you are.

من أعظم الكتب في تاريخ البشرية: الشفاهية والكتابية هذا الكتاب مثل مناجم ذهب مكسوة بطبقة رقيقة من تراب التفاصيل. ما ان تنبش قليلا باصبعك حتى تكتشف الذهب. لقد ضاعف الكتاب على قدرتي التحليلية وفهم الامور المعيشية البسيطة. بعد قراءته ستفهم شخصيات الناس بصورة افضل, وستفهم طرق تفكيرهم, وستفهم كيف تطورت ال Leggi tutto

This book stunned me by revealing how learning to read and write SHAPES YOUR MIND and makes you a different kind of human creature than one who is illiterate. Illiterate people may be high IQ and very clever, but without having learned to read and write, their conscious experience is very different

this book - more than McLuhan imo - is the 21st century media theory GOAT