First impressions -- After Luther : civil war in Christendom -- After Erasmus : propelling the knowledge industry -- Eighteenth-century attitudes -- The zenith of print culture (nineteenth century) -- The newspaper press : the end of books? -- Toward the sense of an ending (fin de siecle to the present)
Summary
'Divine Art, Infernal Machine' presents a history of the printing press & of the ambivalent attitudes of the public toward printers & printing since the days of Gutenberg & his business partner Johann Fust, a gentleman often tellingly confused with the notorious Doctor Faustus
