Language As Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization - Couverture rigide

Ong, Walter J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1501714481 ISBN 13 : 9781501714481

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Language in all its modes--oral, written, print, electronic--claims the central role in Walter J. Ong's acclaimed speculations on human culture. After his death, his archives were found to contain unpublished drafts of a final book manuscript that Ong envisioned as a distillation of his life's work. This first publication of Language as Hermeneutic, reconstructed from Ong's various drafts by Thomas D. Zlatic and Sara van den Berg, is more than a summation of his thinking. It develops new arguments around issues of cognition, interpretation, and language. Digitization, he writes, is inherent in all forms of "writing," from its early beginnings in clay tablets. As digitization increases in print and now electronic culture, there is a corresponding need to counter the fractioning of digitization with the unitive attempts of hermeneutics, particularly hermeneutics that are modeled on oral rather than written paradigms.

In addition to the edited text of Language as Hermeneutic, this volume includes essays on the reconstruction of Ong's work and its significance within Ong's intellectual project, as well as a previously unpublished article by Ong, "Time, Digitization, and Dalí's Memory," which further explores language's role in preserving and enhancing our humanity in the digital age.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Walter J. Ong (1912-2003) taught at Saint Louis University for thirty years. His many books include Orality and Literacy, Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology; Interfaces of the Word; and Fighting for Life, the latter three from Cornell.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1501714481
• ISBN 13: 9781501714481
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 238
• Éditeur: Zlatic Thomas D., Van Den Berg Sara
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