Includes bibliographical references.

Books in the global dialogue of cultures / Zygmunt Bauman -- Speech, writing and the subject / Georges B. Kutukdjian -- A parable on books in the global culture / Francisco Delich -- Literature and books in Uganda’s cultural framework / Goretti Kyomuhendo -- The end of culture and the last book / Sérgio Paulo Rouanet -- At the heart of language / Emmanuel Carneiro Leão -- Library, liberty / Gianni Vattimo -- About the story of a life / Gerd Bornheim -- The library of Robinson Crusoe / Alberto Manguel -- The information era and the use of books / Barbara Freitag -- The new literates of the network society / Gloria López Morales -- Books between African memory and anticipation / Jean-Godefroy Bidima -- Metamorphoses of the book and of reading / Maurice Aymard -- Written culture in the globalization era : what future for books? / Milagros del Corral -- The word, the image and the humanities / Masahiro Hamashita -- Complicities / Rafael Argullol -- The paths of books / Michel Maffesoli.

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