Bibliophobia Audiobook Libro.fm

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Bibliophobia is a book about material books how they are cared for and how they are damaged throughout the 5000year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone

Bibliophobia is a global history covering six continents and seven religions describing written examples from each of the last thirty centuries and several earlier It discusses topics such as the origins of different kinds of human script the development of textual media such as scrolls codices printed books and artificial intelligence the collection and destruction of libraries the use of books as holy relics talismans or shrines and the place of literacy in the history of slavery heresy blasphemy censorship and persecution It proposes a theory of writing how it relates to speech images and information or to concepts of mimesis personhood and politics Originating as the Clarendon Lectures in the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford the methods of Bibliophobia range across book history comparative religion philosophy from Plato to Hegel and Freud and a range of global literature from ancient to contemporary Its inspiration is the power that books always and continue to have in the emotional spiritual bodily and imaginative lives of readers