Preface

Introduction: The Scholar in His Study

1. Phaedrus: Hearing Socrates, Reading Plato

2. From the Alexandrian Library to the Virtual Library and Beyond
Hyperlink: The Instability of the Text

3. From the Codex Page to the Homepage
Hyperlink: The Shrine of Nonlinear Reading

4. The Persistence of the Old and the Pragmatics of the New
Hyperlink: Who Owns That Idea?

5. The Ancients and the Moderns: The Classics and Western Civilizations

6. Augustine Today: Linear Narratives and Multiple Pathways

7. The New Liberal Arts: Teaching in the Postmodern World
Hyperlink: How Does Teaching Work?

8. What Becomes of Universities? (For Professors Only)

9. Cassiodorus: Or, the Life of the Mind in Cyberspace

Bibliographic Notes

Index

James J. O'Donnell brings to his searching meditation on the life of the mind in cyberspace a unique combination of perspectives. He is Provost at Georgetown University.