Inventing the Alphabet

“A rich, detailed account of how western thinkers have understood the origins and development of the alphabet.” ― BBC History Magazine Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes obscure and esoteric references, dispelling myths and identifying a pantheon of little-known scholars who contributed to our modern understandings of the alphabet, one of the most import