Beyond Literacy: The Second Gutenberg Revolution

by R. Patton Howell (Editor)

Articles by Nobel laureates, editors, writers, educators, publishers and scientists are presented in this anthology that considers the importance of reading as one of humanity’s most important survival tools. These articles “reveal the second Gutenberg revolution, created by a new kind of people. These new people not only read from the vast numbers of books made possible by the first Gutenberg revolution, they also have the aesthetic abilities to create new internal dimensions of reality from reading,” notes anthology editor R. Patton Howell. Contributions include essays by Joseph Brodsky, Norman Cousins, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka, Judith Appelbaum, Donald Lamm and Rollo May, among others.

176 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1990

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