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Created: June 27, 2004
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Bookish Learning: Ivan Illich's In the Vineyard of the Text

Notes:

Either in Ivan Illich's In the Vineyard of the Text or in Ruether's Gaia & God somewhere around p. 200 there is a discussion on McLuhan and how the postmodern radical McLuhan thought would not be 'the medium is the text', but that the 'the text becomes the next medium.' or close to that.

At p. 21. "Here again, Hugh quotes an auctoritas: the gnothi seauton, the maxim 'know thyself,' which is first preserved in Xenophon, remains a standing epigram throughout antiquity, and is widely quoted in the twelfth century (fn. omitted). However, the mere fact that an authoritative key sentence is quoted and requoted unchanaged over a millenium and more is no guarantee that its sense has remained unaltered. This is the reason why I am tempted to translate seipsum, when written by Hugh, as 'thy Self' rather than 'thyself.' "