"Printed and bound in Slovenia"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-315) and index.
I. The Alphabet in Context -- II. Origins and Historians -- III. The Alphabet in Classical History, Philosophy and Divination -- IV. Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism and Neo-Pythagoreanism: The Alphabet in the Hellenistic and Early Christian Era -- V. Calligraphy, Alchemy and Ars Combinatoria in the Medieval Period -- VI. The Kabbalah -- VII. Rationalizing the Alphabet: Construction, Real Character and Philosophical Languages in the Renaissance -- VIII. The Social Contract, Primitivism and Nationalism: The Alphabet in the 18th Century -- IX. The Alphabet in the 19th Century: Advertising, Visible Speech and Narratives of History -- X. 20th Century: Eclecticism, Technology and the Idiosyncratic Imagination.
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A colorful and thorough exploration of the history of the alphabet and its symbolism in a mystical, philosophical, social, and artistic context.