By Carlo Sini & Sylvia Benso & Brian S. Schroeder
ISBN-10: 1438428510
ISBN-13: 9781438428512
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ISBN-13: 9781438428574
ISBN-10: 1441629750
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First English translation of Sini's very important paintings at the impact of writing and the alphabet on Western rationality.
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21 One should add: this universe is truly new; that is, facts literally did not exist before the practice of prose, and theories could not be held true backwards, that is, for example, so as to explain a universe constructed on the basis of oral memory. 22 This too should be understood literally: it is not a matter of a previous existence of the mind that is later liberated; it is a matter of the event of pure mind, that is, a practice of thought and speech that frees itself of the pathos of “archaic” speech.
The circle mind-alphabet. ” The Greeks invented aphonous, voiceless (aphona) sounds, or more precisely hemiphona (uttered half-way, semi-sonants, such as “s”) and symphona (con-sonants, elements voiced “in company”). In truth, the Greeks created, literally, “a table of atomic elements”36 that can be combined in innumerable relations and are fit to represent ideally any linguistic noise. The relation between atoms and letters is more than a mere coincidence. Everywhere in Greece we find the creation of new, purely theoretical units.
Alphabet and philosophy. The introduction of the Greek letters into inscription somewhere around 700 BCE was to alter the character of human culture, placing a gulf between all alphabetic societies and their precursors. 48 Havelock seems to realize well that the essential issue is not the alphabet in itself but rather “practice,” its practice. It is [practice] which, after an ancient stage of expansion, declines during the middle ages, and explodes in the modern epoch thanks to the insertion of a new practice (of a further content of the form), which is the one made possible by the invention of the printing press.
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