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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... city-state with its laws, constitution, ruler, and god. The supreme merit of monarchy was its intelligibility.“Men are governed by the weakness of their imaginations” (Bagehot). The influential chief became a man god.The age of magic ...
... city-state with its laws, constitution, ruler, and god. The supreme merit of monarchy was its intelligibility.“Men are governed by the weakness of their imaginations” (Bagehot). The influential chief became a man god.The age of magic ...
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... city-state and the king merely a vice-regent, and took the final step of deifying the reigning monarch.The cult of the sovereign was designed to achieve religious unity as a foundation for political unity. Under the Sumerians land had ...
... city-state and the king merely a vice-regent, and took the final step of deifying the reigning monarch.The cult of the sovereign was designed to achieve religious unity as a foundation for political unity. Under the Sumerians land had ...
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... city-state was absorbed in the territorial state. For the marking and distinction of months, ideograms were borrowed from the Sumerian calendar and a fixed series of months was arranged by a selection of 354 days in a lunar year.The ...
... city-state was absorbed in the territorial state. For the marking and distinction of months, ideograms were borrowed from the Sumerian calendar and a fixed series of months was arranged by a selection of 354 days in a lunar year.The ...
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Inhalt
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32 | |
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The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization | 75 |
The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire | 106 |
Parchment and Paper | 138 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Marginalia | 220 |
Suggested Reading | 270 |
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