Empire and CommunicationsIt’s been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis’s most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity’s movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recent times. Along the way, he presents his own influential concepts of oral communication, time and space bias, and monopolies of knowledge. |
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The names of gods were part ofthe essence ofbeing, and the influence of the
scribe was reflected in the deities. Since religion and magic alike were sacred
they became independent.The priest used prayers and offerings to the gods,
whereas ...
The god of writing was closely related to the leading deities and reflected the
power ofthe scribe over religion.The scribe had the full qualifications of a special
profession and was included in the upper classes of kings, priests, nobles, and ...
... psalms.7Though contributing little to wisdom literature and showing little
evidence of writing for writing's sake,8 Babylonia reached “a high point of
aesthetic excellence of hymns to deities, of prayers in lyric form, and of psalms of
penitence.
Enlil, the chief god of Nippur and head of the pantheon under the Sumerians,
was a storm-god who absorbed the attributes of the solar and agricultural deities.
His consort Ninlil became the mother goddess. He was made subordinate to ...
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Nutzerbericht - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingThe style is a little dry, but Dr. Innis makes an interesting connection between the script, the method of writing(Hieroglyph, Cuneiform, alphabet) and the form of an Empire created in the past. A ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Inhalt
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The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization | 75 |
The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire | 106 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 138 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Marginalia | 220 |
Suggested Reading | 270 |
Index | 274 |
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| Titel | Empire and Communications Voyageur Classics |
| Autor | Harold A. Innis |
| Mitwirkende Personen | Alexander John Watson |
| Verlag | Dundurn, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1459721055, 9781459721050 |
| Länge | 288 Seiten |
| Zitat exportieren | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |