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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... they seem to think of the distinction of society into those three classes, as if it were one of God's ordinances, not man's, and as little under human control as the division of day and night. Scarcely 22 HAROLD A. INNIS.
... they seem to think of the distinction of society into those three classes, as if it were one of God's ordinances, not man's, and as little under human control as the division of day and night. Scarcely 22 HAROLD A. INNIS.
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... gods of the fertile delta imposed their authority on the rest of Egypt and their worship coincided with the spread of political influence. Universal gods emerged in certain centres, their influence was extended by theologians, and ...
... gods of the fertile delta imposed their authority on the rest of Egypt and their worship coincided with the spread of political influence. Universal gods emerged in certain centres, their influence was extended by theologians, and ...
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... gods, men, and things in a fashion reminiscent of Genesis and the Gospel of St.John.“I created all shapes with what ... God Thoth,2 as the friend, minister, scribe, and keeper ofthe divine book of government of Ra became the Lord of ...
... gods, men, and things in a fashion reminiscent of Genesis and the Gospel of St.John.“I created all shapes with what ... God Thoth,2 as the friend, minister, scribe, and keeper ofthe divine book of government of Ra became the Lord of ...
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... God and the king was lowered from the Great God to the Son ofRa and to the Good God.The king as a Sun-god was a man who did not work with his hands but merely existed and, like the sun, acted on environment from a distance.The Sun was ...
... God and the king was lowered from the Great God to the Son ofRa and to the Good God.The king as a Sun-god was a man who did not work with his hands but merely existed and, like the sun, acted on environment from a distance.The Sun was ...
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Harold A. Innis. which God was conceived of as an intelligence which has thought the world and expresses itself by the ... gods favoured the growth of political ideas. After a period of political confusion from 2360 BC to 2160 BC a new ...
Harold A. Innis. which God was conceived of as an intelligence which has thought the world and expresses itself by the ... gods favoured the growth of political ideas. After a period of political confusion from 2360 BC to 2160 BC a new ...
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Babylonia | 46 |
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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