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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... fell off dramatically as one lecture succeeded another. The reviews were condescending, and the original edition of Empire and Communications sold so slowly that Oxford's Clarendon Press declined to re-issue it. Given 14 HAROLD A. INNIS.
... fell off dramatically as one lecture succeeded another. The reviews were condescending, and the original edition of Empire and Communications sold so slowly that Oxford's Clarendon Press declined to re-issue it. Given 14 HAROLD A. INNIS.
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Harold A. Innis. slowly that Oxford's Clarendon Press declined to re-issue it. Given the intellectual solitude in which Innis pursued his com- munications studies and the negativity with which they were received, it is perhaps not ...
Harold A. Innis. slowly that Oxford's Clarendon Press declined to re-issue it. Given the intellectual solitude in which Innis pursued his com- munications studies and the negativity with which they were received, it is perhaps not ...
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... decline of civilizations , which have reflected an intense interest in the possible future of our own civilization . In the title of these lectures on imperial economic history it is clear that in our civilization we are concerned not ...
... decline of civilizations , which have reflected an intense interest in the possible future of our own civilization . In the title of these lectures on imperial economic history it is clear that in our civilization we are concerned not ...
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... declined , less valuable commodities emerged as staples precious metals , dried fish exported to Spain to secure pre- cious metals , timber to support defence , in the words of Adam Smith “perhaps more important than opulence,” and ...
... declined , less valuable commodities emerged as staples precious metals , dried fish exported to Spain to secure pre- cious metals , timber to support defence , in the words of Adam Smith “perhaps more important than opulence,” and ...
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... decline and the power of the priests and the nobles to increase . The difficulties of the sidereal year in which a day was gained each year may have contributed to the problems of the absolute monarch and hastened the search for a solar ...
... decline and the power of the priests and the nobles to increase . The difficulties of the sidereal year in which a day was gained each year may have contributed to the problems of the absolute monarch and hastened the search for a solar ...
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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adapted administration Aeschylus alphabet Ancient Aramaic Arameans Aristotle Assyrian Athenian Athens attempted Babylon 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 Europe favoured followed France gods Greece Greek growth Harold Innis Hebrew History Hittites Homeric Hyksos Ibid imperial important increased influence introduced Ionian Kassites king language large numbers Latin literary literature London medium Mitanni monarchy monasticism monopoly of knowledge newspapers oral tradition organization Orphism Oxford papacy paper papyrus parchment Persian Persian empire philosophy Phoenician poetry political position priests printing probably production reflected religion religious Roman law Rome sacred scribes script Semitic spread Study Sumerian temple tion Toronto trade translated University vernacular weakened worship writing written tradition York
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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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