Empire and CommunicationsDundurn, 01.01.2007 - 288 Seiten It’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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... deities. Since religion and magic alike were sacred they became independent.The priest used prayers and offerings to the gods, whereas the magician circumvented them by force or trickery. Family worship survived in the Osirian cult, and ...
... deities. Since religion and magic alike were sacred they became independent.The priest used prayers and offerings to the gods, whereas the magician circumvented them by force or trickery. Family worship survived in the Osirian cult, and ...
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... 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 generals, in contrast with peasants ...
... 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 generals, in contrast with peasants ...
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... deities by admitting the gods of conquered peoples to the pantheon.Attempts were made to make religion flexible and suited to the needs of political units based on force. The difficulties contributed to the downfall of the first dynasty ...
... deities by admitting the gods of conquered peoples to the pantheon.Attempts were made to make religion flexible and suited to the needs of political units based on force. The difficulties contributed to the downfall of the first dynasty ...
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... deities was followed by Dungi,d who disregarded the Sumerian practice of making the chief god the real ruler of the city-state and the king merely a vice-regent, and took the final step of deifying the reigning monarch.The cult of the ...
... deities was followed by Dungi,d who disregarded the Sumerian practice of making the chief god the real ruler of the city-state and the king merely a vice-regent, and took the final step of deifying the reigning monarch.The cult of the ...
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... sake,8 Babylonia reached “a high point of aesthetic excellence of hymns to deities, of prayers in lyric form, and of psalms of penitence.”9 Though religion became less important following the consolidation of power, 52 HAROLD A. INNIS.
... sake,8 Babylonia reached “a high point of aesthetic excellence of hymns to deities, of prayers in lyric form, and of psalms of penitence.”9 Though religion became less important following the consolidation of power, 52 HAROLD A. INNIS.
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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