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Book SynopsisLanguage 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 After his death, his archives were found to contain unpublished drafts of a final book manuscript that Ong envisioned as a distillation of his life’s work.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...
Trade Review"Language as Hermeneutic is fresh and startlingly relevant. This short book could have an important impact on issues of cognition, interpretation, and the reception of literary and philosophical texts in an era of technological and media transformation." -- William J. Kennedy, author of
Petrarchism at WorkTable of ContentsPreface
Introduction, by Sara van den Berg
Part I: by Walter J. Ong
Prologue
1. Orality, Writing, Presence
2. Hermeneutics, Textual and Other
3. Affiliations of Hermeneutics with Texts
4. The Interpersonalism of Hermeneutics, Oral and Other
5. Hermeneutics, Print, and "Facts"
6. Hermeneutics and the Unsaid
7. Meaning, Hermeneutic, and Interpersonal Trust
8. Hermeneutic and Communication in Oral Cultures
9. Logos and Digitization
10. Hermeneutics in Children’s Learning to Speak
11. Language, Technology, and the Human
Epilogue: The Mythology of Logos
Illustrations
References
Part II
Language as Hermeneutic, by Thomas D. Zlatic
Language as Hermeneutic, by Thomas D. Zlatic
Part III
Time, Digitization, and Dalí’s Memory, by Walter J. Ong
Picturing Ong’s Oral Hermeneutic, by Thomas D. Zlatic
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
