McKenzie ([1986] 2004)
Mckenzie 2004 Preface no one book would ever contain all the evidence needed to explain how it must have been produced 3 For a book is never simply a remarkable object. Like every other technology it is invariably the product of human agency in complex and highly volatile contexts which a responsible scholarship must seek to recover if we are to understand better the creation and communication of meaning as the defining characteristic of human societies. [...] For ultimately what gives the highest significance to the history of all such forms and their making is their far from silent witness to a wealth of human experience whose recovery is the principal end of our scholarship. As to print, its study might be called histoire du livre , or the sociology of texts, or even (since books have been traditionally its source and substance) bibliography. 4-5 Sociologia e filosofia da produção do livro. 1 The Book as an expressive form Bowers: bibliografia descritiva; analitica, t...