The World on Paper: The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading

1. Demythologising literacy 2. Theories of literacy and mind from Levy-Bruhl to Scribner and Cole 3. Literacy and the conceptual revolutions of Classical Greece and Renaissance Europe 4. What writing represents 5. What writing doesn't represent 6. The problem of interpretation 7. A history of reading 8. Reading the Book of Nature 9. A history of written discourse 10. Representing the world in maps, diagrams, formulas, pictures and texts 11. Representing the mind 12. The making of the literate mind.