Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image Sansouci Like everyone else

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Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image Sansouci Like everyone elseThis groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre literate cultures were principally informed by holistic, right brain modes that venerated the Goddess, images, and feminine values. Writing drove cultures toward linear left