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Alphabetic print-based literacy, hermeneutic sociality, and philosophic culture

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ABSTRACT This essay offers a media ecological orientation to Western philosophy, showing the essential role that alphabetic writing and print play in making philosophy possible. It offers reviews of historical… Click to show full abstract

ABSTRACT This essay offers a media ecological orientation to Western philosophy, showing the essential role that alphabetic writing and print play in making philosophy possible. It offers reviews of historical developments in alphabetic print-based literacy to show how modern literacy has congealed into a hermeneutic sociality undergirding philosophic culture.

Keywords: print; alphabetic print; print based; philosophy; based literacy

Journal Title: Review of Communication
Year Published: 2017

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