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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 After his death, his archives were found to contain unpublished drafts of a final book manuscript that Ong envisioned as a distillation of his life's work.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 than a summation of his thinking. It develops new arguments around issues of cognition, interpretation, and language. Digitization, he writes, is inherent in all forms of "writing," from its early beginnings in clay tablets. As digitization increases in print and now electronic culture, there is a corresponding need to counter the fractioning of digitization with the unitive attempts of hermeneutics, particularly hermeneutics that are modeled on oral rather than written paradigms.In addition to the edited text of Language as Hermeneutic, this volume includes essays on the reconstruction of Ong's work and its significance within Ong's intellectual project, as well as a previously unpublished article by Ong, "Time, Digitization, and Dali's Memory," which further explores language's role in preserving and enhancing our humanity in the digital age.

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 janvier 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501714504
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Language as Hermeneutic

A Primer on the Word and Digitization

Walter J. Ong

Edited and with Commentaries by Thomas D. Zlatic and Sara van den Berg

Cornell University Press Ithaca and London

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First published 2017 by Cornell University Press

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Names: Ong, Walter J., author. | Zlatic, Thomas D., editor, writer of added commentary. | Van den Berg, Sara J., editor, writer of introduction. Title: Language as hermeneutic : a primer on the word and digitization / Walter J. Ong ; edited and with commentaries by Thomas D. Zlatic and Sara van den Berg. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2017027640 (print) | LCCN 2017032360 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501714498 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501714504 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501714481 | ISBN 9781501714481 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501712043 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Communication and technology. | Language and languages—Technological innovations. | Writing—Technological innovations. | Digital communications. | Hermeneutics. Classiﬁcation: LCC P96.T42 (ebook) | LCC P96.T42 O54 2017 (print) | DDC 401—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017027640

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Cover design: Richanna Patrick Cover illustration: Sumerian clay tablet, c. 2500 BC, inscribed with an account of silver and other commodities (British Museum).

Preface

Introduction Sara van den Berg

Contents

Part I:Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and DigitizationWalter J. Ong Prologue

1. Orality, Writing, Presence

2. Hermeneutics, Textual and Other

3. Afﬁliations of Hermeneutics with Text

4. The Interpersonalism of Hermeneutics, Oral and Other

5. Hermeneutics, Print, and “Facts”

6. Hermeneutics and the Unsaid

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7. Meaning, Hermeneutic, and Interpersonal Trust

8. Hermeneutic and Communication in Oral Cultures

9. Logos and Digitization

10. Hermeneutics in Children’s Learning to Speak

11. Language, Technology, and the Human

Epilogue: The Mythology ofLogos

Illustrations

References

Part II: AboutLanguage as Hermeneutic

Language as Hermeneutic: The Evolution of the Idea and the Text Thomas D. Zlatic

Language as Hermeneutic: An Unresolved Chord Thomas D. Zlatic

Part III: Appendices

Time, Digitization, and Dalí’s Memory Walter J. Ong

Picturing Ong’s Oral Hermeneutic Thomas D. Zlatic

Notes

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Preface

Upon his death in 2003, Walter J. Ong S.J. left unpublished a mostly completed manuscript that he had worked on from 1987 to 1994:Lan guage as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization. This manuscript was his last booklength project. We offer it here in the hope that it will serve both the general reader and the scholar already familiar with Ong’s work. To this end, we have provided a context that includes explanatory materials on the life and work of Walter Ong. Our goal is to show the continuing relevance of his multidisciplinary studies in language and culture for further research along these lines. In the introduction, Sara van den Berg provides an overview and as sessment of Ong’s thought in relation toLanguage as Hermeneutic. The editors then present the reconstructed text of the manuscript, which con sists of a prologue, eleven chapters, and an epilogue. The next two parts of the volume describe the reconstruction of the text and contextualize its themes in relation to other works by Walter Ong. In “Language as Hermeneutic: The Evolution of the Idea and the Text,” Thomas Zlatic

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