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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... 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 arbitrator.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 arbitrator.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 people. 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 people. 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 antiaristocratic kings was accompanied by increased democratization of the cult of Osiris.18 Desperate ...
... cult in which duty to the empire was the chief consideration. It has been suggested that the rise of a middle-class bureaucracy under antiaristocratic kings was accompanied by increased democratization of the cult of Osiris.18 Desperate ...
Inhalt
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11 | |
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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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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adapted administration alphabet Ancient Aramaic Arameans Assyrian Athens attempted Babylonia became the basis brought Byzantine Byzantine empire Cambridge centre century Christianity Church city-state civilization communication concept Constantinople cult culture cuneiform decline deities demands Dionysus divine dominated dynasty efficient Egypt Egyptian emperor emphasis empire England English epic established favoured followed France gods Greece Greek growth Hebrew History Hittites Homeric Hyksos Ibid imperial important increased influence Innis Innis’s introduced Ionian Kassites king language large numbers Latin literary literature London medium Mitanni monarchy monasticism monopoly of knowledge newspapers NewYork ofthe oral tradition organization Orphism Oxford papacy paper papyrus parchment Pergamum Persian Persian empire philosophy Phoenician poetry political position priests printing probably problems production reflected religion religious Roman Roman law Rome sacred scribes script Semitic spoken word spread Study Sumerian temple tion trade University vernacular Werner Jaeger worship writing written tradition
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 78 - 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 194 - 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 28 - It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another.
Seite 13 - 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 214 - Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England
Seite 110 - 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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