Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present

"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 imp...