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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... cult was exalted to the rank of chief 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 ...
... cult was exalted to the rank of chief 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 ...
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... cult of Horus and Osiris. Ra worship had become too purely political and individuals found a final meaning and a fulfilment of life beyond the vicissitudes of the political arbitra- tor.14 Osiris, the god of the Nile, became the Good ...
... cult of Horus and Osiris. Ra worship had become too purely political and individuals found a final meaning and a fulfilment of life beyond the vicissitudes of the political arbitra- tor.14 Osiris, the god of the Nile, became the Good ...
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... cult, and because of a practical interest magic was used by the peo- ple. Since to know the name of a being was to have the means of mastering him, to pronounce the name was to fashion the spiritual image by the voice, and to write it ...
... cult, and because of a practical interest magic was used by the peo- ple. Since to know the name of a being was to have the means of mastering him, to pronounce the name was to fashion the spiritual image by the voice, and to write it ...
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... cult ofThoth had played an important role in the expulsion of the Hyksos and in the New Kingdom. Thoth became the god of magic. His epithets had great power and strength, and certain formulae were regarded as potent in the resistance to ...
... cult ofThoth had played an important role in the expulsion of the Hyksos and in the New Kingdom. Thoth became the god of magic. His epithets had great power and strength, and certain formulae were regarded as potent in the resistance to ...
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... cult in which duty to the empire was the chief consideration. It has been suggested that the rise of a middle-class bureaucracy under anti- aristocratic kings was accompanied by increased democratization of the cult of Osiris.18 ...
... cult in which duty to the empire was the chief consideration. It has been suggested that the rise of a middle-class bureaucracy under anti- aristocratic kings was accompanied by increased democratization of the cult of Osiris.18 ...
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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