The Alphabetisation of Thought : Orthography, Locke, and Natural Philosophy /

The Alphabetisation of Thought : Orthography, Locke, and Natural Philosophy /

The Alphabetisation of Thought is a bold and original study about the rise, spread and dominance of orthographic thinking in the Early Modern period. Starting out as a local, grammatical mode of thinking, it soon gained momentum, strength and depth, turning into a development that provoked a wholesa...

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Main Author: Isermann, Michael M. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History.
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Call Number: D410

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on the Text
  • List of Figures and Illustrations
  • Introduction: Anachronisms, Pre-concepts and the Alphabetisation of Thought
  • Part 1: Locke and the Alphabetisation of Thought
  • 1 Writing and the Mind
  • 1 The Rise and Fall of Writing
  • 2 Writing, Printing and the Mind
  • 3 The Printing Office and the Mind's Faculties
  • 4 The Compositor and the Spelling Tradition
  • 2 Orthography and the Mind
  • 1 The Alphabet and the Mind
  • 2 Simple Ideas and the littera
  • 3 Orthoepy and Orthography: a Humanist Prelude
  • 4 Mulcaster and Locke on Common Use
  • 5 Hart, Locke and Spelling Vices
  • 3 The Alphabetisation of Thought
  • 1 Approaching the Alphabetisation of Thought
  • 2 Orthographic Vices and the Alphabetisation of Thought
  • 3 The Stages of Alphabetisation
  • 4 Alphabetisation and the Categories of Change
  • 4 Alphabetisation and the Tradition
  • 1 Locke and Ideas as Signs
  • 2 Writing and the Truth of Ideas
  • 3 Alphabetical Order and Essentialism
  • 4 The Standardisation of Writing
  • Part 2: Practical Routines and Theoretical Framework
  • 5 Thinking, Spelling and Ciphering
  • 1 Marigolds and Violets
  • 2 Simple Ideas and Simple Secrets
  • 3 Cryptography and Orthography
  • 4 Ciphering and the Teaching of Pronunciation
  • Excursus: the Alphabetisation of Thought and Linguistic Practices
  • 6 Extending the Spelling Reform
  • 1 From Rational Spelling to a Universal Alphabet
  • 2 Universal Characters and Philosophical Languages
  • 3 The Cipher Model of Communication
  • 4 Wilkins's Phonetic Character and the Communication of Sounds
  • 7 Representation and Analogy
  • 1 Robert Boyle and the Encrypted Nature
  • 2 Analogy and Alphabetisation
  • 3 Contextualizing the Alphabetisation of Thought
  • Bibliography
  • Index.