The Alphabet Versus the Goddess The Conflict Between Word and Image - Leonard Shlain Audiobook
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Who changed the sex of God?
This 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-brain thinking and this shift upset the balance between men and women, initiating the decline of the feminine and ushering in patriarchal rule. Examining the cultures of the Israelites, Greeks, Christians, and Muslims, Shlain reinterprets ancient myths and parables in light of his theory. Provocative and inspiring, this book is a paradigm-shattering work that will transform your view of history and the mind.
Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
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This post has 9 comments with rating of 4.5/5
October 23rd, 2022
Sounds great. Thanks.
October 23rd, 2022
Literacy promotes patriarchy?
October 23rd, 2022
@caesar963,
Ha, right. Sounds like an interesting book but it’s basic premise seems a stretch. Far more likely that increasingly complex and hierarchical social organization caused this shift. I guess I should read it before criticizing though.
October 23rd, 2022
Leonard Shlain was an interesting guy, with many intriguing aesthetic theories.
Many such conjectures as the one outlined do err heavily on the side of reductionism.
Still worth a go, though.
October 23rd, 2022
“Although Chinese Confucianism treated women harshly, two other sophisticated Asian cultures—Korea and Japan—surpassed the Chinese in this doleful department. These two were the *only* countries in ancient Asia to adopt a linear horizontal alphabet in addition to their use of Chinese ideographic script.”
This book is weak argumentation based on data that are just wrong. Japan’s “alphabetic” (moraic) system of kana was for hundreds of years considered “women’s writing” and men wrote only in kanbun, chinese character texts, to the point that for a man to write in kana he had to adopt a woman persona. And also reading and writing are and always have been dominated by women anywhere they are allowed to be literate, so as expected all the great texts from heian japan, still read and revered today, were written by women: Genji Monogatari, Makura no Soushi, Eiga Monogatari, Kagerou Nikki, Sarashina Nikki, Izumi Shikibu Nikki…
(And also hangeul in Korea, an actual alphabet, was scorned by men for long after its invention, because “real men use hanja”.)
October 23rd, 2022
Steady on, h, there may still be a few perspicacious postulates. It was St. Paul (or Bruce Lee?) who observed, “Take from a book that which is valuable, discard the rest.”
October 24th, 2022
Maybe I did take offence from the first at his assertion that “the written word is silent” (has this man never read gertrude stein?), but his musing does seem very silly in light of a modern world where literature and literacy are being abandoned by men who would rather watch movies and play games.
October 24th, 2022
…and not grow up, and not think…
May 22nd, 2023
Great book. Very much recommended. Great info about the suffocating and ignorant systems of control over women and all things femenine across time, also a great quick rundown of European/islamic history from the Roman times to the present in the context of oppression and straight up psychopaths making up stuff just to harm people and canonize it into their Holly books.
Definitely skip the last 60-30mins though, as it gets into progressively weaker arguments straight into the nonsensical boomer reasoning
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