Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization

by Walter J Ong and Walter J. Ong

Book Overview

Language in all its modes--oral, written, print, electronic--claims the central role in Walter J. Ong's acclaimed speculations on human culture. After his death, his archives were found to contain unpublished drafts of a final book manuscript that Ong envisioned as a distillation of his life's work. This first publication of Language as Hermeneutic, reconstructed from Ong's various drafts by Thomas D. Zlatic and Sara van den Berg, is more...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501714481
• ISBN13: 9781501714481
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher