{"product_id":"the-violence-of-the-letter-9780472075911","title":"The Violence of the Letter","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy investigating an array of cultural artifacts, ranging from Kubrick’s \u003cem\u003e2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e to the Oracle at Delphi to Luther’s challenge to the Church, this book demonstrates how the apparently benign emergence of writing made possible far-ranging systems of organised domination and unprecedented levels of violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Violence of the Letter\u003c\/i\u003e is exceptionally well written, and the style is original and enjoyable. It engages insightfully with domination, offers a reframing of the Oedipus complex, returns on the separation of soul and body, dissects the violence of alphabetization, and observes the interaction of writing, colonialism, and capitalism: a must read.\" - Lorenzo Veracini, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a provocative, innovative, and engaging work . . . will prove an important and novel contribution to ‘theory’ in general and to ‘theory of writing’ in particular.\" - Ron Scapp, College of Mount Saint Vincent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"McMahon activates a range of scholarship from neuroscience, literary theories, and cultural histories.\u003ci\u003eThe Violence of the Letter\u003c\/i\u003e explores diverse sets of relations which about how the alphabet works as a particular kind of phenomena for writing. Its significance is a theory of literacy about the governing of social life in Western modernities.\" - Thomas S. Popkewitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrelude\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. A Brief Technical Detour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. The Trauma of Literacy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. The Alphabet and Reproduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Plato and the Forms of Alphabetic Writing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. The Alphabet and Money\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterlude\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. Letters of Fire and Blood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7. The Subject Is Always Alphabetized\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"LUP - University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037121642839,"sku":"9780472075911","price":60.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780472075911.jpg?v=1750934519","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-violence-of-the-letter-9780472075911","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}