El paso de la oralidad a la escritura alfabética es un momento decisivo en la historia de la humanidad. Sólo en este horizonte puede emerger las nociones de razón, sujeto y moral, y con ello, la filosofía, la política o el derecho Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present.The intention of this book is to present a unified picture of a crisis that occurred in the history of human communication, when Greek orality transformed itself into Greek literacy.
Eric A. Havelock Book order (chronological)
Eric Alfred Havelock was a British classicist who radically reshaped our understanding of the ancient world. Breaking from the traditional Oxbridge approach to classical studies, he proposed a pivotal division between literature from the 6th and 5th centuries BC and that of the 4th century BC. His central, though controversial, thesis argued that Western thought was profoundly shaped by the transition of Greek philosophy from oral to literate forms. Havelock's influential ideas established the field of orality-literacy studies and impacted communication theories, extending his reach beyond classical scholarship.
