Empire and CommunicationsDundurn, 2007 - 287 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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... Semitic peoples under the Hyksos or Shepherd kings captured and held Egypt from 1660 to 1580 BC . Egyptian cultural ele- ments resisted alien encroachments and facilitated reorganiza- tion and the launching of a counter - attack . The ...
... Semitic peoples under the Hyksos or Shepherd kings captured and held Egypt from 1660 to 1580 BC . Egyptian cultural ele- ments resisted alien encroachments and facilitated reorganiza- tion and the launching of a counter - attack . The ...
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... Semitic invaders. The Sumerians had used archers effectively and had intro- duced chariots drawn by four asses, but the Akkadians succeeded in conquering them. Under Sargon of Agade (about 2568–2513 BC) they built up an empire probably ...
... Semitic invaders. The Sumerians had used archers effectively and had intro- duced chariots drawn by four asses, but the Akkadians succeeded in conquering them. Under Sargon of Agade (about 2568–2513 BC) they built up an empire probably ...
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... Semitic invaders in making themselves 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 ...
... Semitic invaders in making themselves 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 ...
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... Semitic language official. The Amorites reinforced the Akkadians and their language became the popular speech and the official medium. The Babylonians wrote words in non-Semitic form but in the main pronounced them as Semitic ...
... Semitic language official. The Amorites reinforced the Akkadians and their language became the popular speech and the official medium. The Babylonians wrote words in non-Semitic form but in the main pronounced them as Semitic ...
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... Semitic names.The number of gods was reduced and impetus given to monotheism. Anu the sun god had a centre of worship in Uruk and Er the water deity in Eridu. Enlil, the chief god of Nippur and head of the pantheon under the Sumerians ...
... Semitic names.The number of gods was reduced and impetus given to monotheism. Anu the sun god had a centre of worship in Uruk and Er the water deity in Eridu. Enlil, the chief god of Nippur and head of the pantheon under the Sumerians ...
Inhalt
9 | |
19 | |
32 | |
46 | |
4 The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization | 75 |
The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire | 106 |
6 Parchment and Paper | 138 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 212 |
Marginalia | 220 |
Suggested Reading | 270 |
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Seite 77 - Amon in which the latter remarked that this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally...
Seite 193 - The English and American lawyers investigate what has been done; the French advocate inquires what should have been done ; the former produce precedents, the latter reasons. A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes to his own ; whilst the reverse occurs in France.
Seite 27 - It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another.
Seite 12 - He underwent a multilevel crisis towards the end of the Great Depression and the beginning of World War n that launched him on the second half of his intellectual journey.
Seite 213 - Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England
Seite 109 - The \ positive duty resulting from one man's reliance on the word of another is among the slowest conquests of advancing civilisation. Neither Ancient Law nor any other source of evidence discloses to us society entirely destitute of the conception of Contract. But the conception, when it first shows itself, is obviously rudimentary.
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Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age Anthony Giddens Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1991 |