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 | #1270772 in Books |  1995-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.50 x8.00 x1.50l, | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Drucker's THE ALPHABETIC LABYRINTH Aptly Named|By A Customer|Reading--not to mention reviewing--a single

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From Library Journal|Long regarded as a divine gift, the alphabet has been seen not just as a collection of arbitrary signs but as the direct visual embodiment of meaning. Pythagoreans, Kabbalists, neo-Platonists, and medieval Catholic mystics regarded the alpha

The letters of the alphabet have been the object of speculation since their invention almost 4000 years ago. The symbols represent sounds, yet they exist in their own right, often invested with quasi-magical power. This book examines the many imaginative, often idiosyncratic ways in which the letters of the alphabet have been assigned value in political, spiritual, or religious belief systems over two millennia. The birth of writing was linked to religion and cosmology a...

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