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Hardcover | 6 February 1995

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Writing and European Thought 1600â"1830 argues for the central importance of writing to conceptions of language, technological progress, and Western civilization during the early modern era. Attitudes to the written language changed radically between the late Renaissance and Romanticism, and Nicholas Hudson traces the development of thought about language during this period, challenging some central assumptions of modern historical scholarship. He asserts that European thinkers have not been uniformly 'logocentric', and he questions the assumption that the rise of print and literacy produced a more visually oriented culture. Through detailed readings of major writers, Hudson shows how writing became the emblem of the superiority of European culture, and how, with the expansion of print culture, European intellectuals became more aware of the virtues of 'orality' and the deficiencies of literate society.

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'Hudson has written a succinct and careful monograph, which is easy to use, full of information and a pleasure to read ... it is to be hoped that his study becomes widely read both as a useful reference point for scholars from a multitude of disciplines and a fascinating story in its own right.' English

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sacred and occult scripts in the Renaissance tradition
The demystification of writing in the seventeenth century
'The uniform voice of nature': conjectural history in the early eighteenth century
Conservative reaction: the study of writing after Warburton
Writing and speech: the debate in Britain
Rousseau's Essai sur l'origine des langues and its context
The new mediation: perceptions of writing in the Romantic era
Conclusions: a continuing legacy of debate
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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