The function and the multiple uses of book

Abstract

The paper approaches the analysis of the book from the Theory of Objects of Abraham Moles, focusing particularly on the difference between its function and its uses. Being the book a cultural object that has accompanied us throughout the centuries, it has led us to establish relationships that have placed it as the principal object of transmission and conservation of knowledge par excellence. The main reflection focuses on establishing and clarifying the substantial difference between the function and the uses of the book, which has led us to a confusion that arises when we think that the function is the same as the uses.  We have attributed functions that are not proper to the object under a load of semantic meanings. This is a first approach to the analysis of the book from the Theory of Objects, as part of a broader study, which also allows us to glimpse a dichotomy between the book and its content.