The alphabet versus the goddess : the conflict between word and image

Summary: Forging provocative connections among many fields, the author of Art and Physics demonstrates how alphabetic literacy caused the development of the brain's left half over the right, which affected the role and power of women.

Record details

ISBN: 9780670878833
ISBN: 0670878839
Physical Description: xiv, 464 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Publisher: New York : Viking, 1998.
Copyright: ©1998

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-453) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Image/word -- Hunters/gatherers -- Right brain/left brain -- Males: death/females: life -- Nonverbal/verbal -- Cuneiform/Marduk -- Hieroglyphs/isis -- Aleph/bet -- Hebrews/Israelites -- Abraham/Moses -- Thera/Matzah -- Adam/Eve -- Cadmus/Alpha -- Sappho/Ganymede -- Dionysus/Apollo -- Athens/Sparta -- Lingam/Yoni -- Birth/death -- Yin/yang -- Taosim/Confucianism -- B.C./A.D. -- Jesus/Christ -- Death/rebirth -- Patriarchs/heretics -- Reason/madness -- Illiteracy/celibacy, 500-1000 -- Muslin veils/Muslim words -- Mystic/scholastic, 1000-1300 -- Humanist/egoist, 1300-1500 -- Protestant/catholic -- Faith/hate -- Sorcery/science -- Positive/negative, 1648-1899 -- Id/superego, 1900-1945 -- Page/screen, 1945-2000.