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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... writing about the Canadian experience in all its varieties. This series of original or translated works in the fields of literature, history, politics, and biography has been gathered to enrich and illuminate our understanding of a ...
... writing about the Canadian experience in all its varieties. This series of original or translated works in the fields of literature, history, politics, and biography has been gathered to enrich and illuminate our understanding of a ...
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... writing for anyone seeking to understand the nature of Canada. But Innis's intellectual goal was never so parochial. He had always insisted that the perspective of peripheral intellectuals was essential to the renewal of Western ...
... writing for anyone seeking to understand the nature of Canada. But Innis's intellectual goal was never so parochial. He had always insisted that the perspective of peripheral intellectuals was essential to the renewal of Western ...
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... writing period we can note the importance of various media such as the clay tablet of Mesopotamia, the papyrus roll ... writers with a professional tendency to magnify their office have always been given to exaggerate the effect of ...
... writing period we can note the importance of various media such as the clay tablet of Mesopotamia, the papyrus roll ... writers with a professional tendency to magnify their office have always been given to exaggerate the effect of ...
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... writing, music played its role in emphasizing rhythm and metre, which eased the task of memory. Poetry is significant as a tribute to the oral tradition. Sapir has noted that “many primitive languages have a formal richness; a latent ...
... writing, music played its role in emphasizing rhythm and metre, which eased the task of memory. Poetry is significant as a tribute to the oral tradition. Sapir has noted that “many primitive languages have a formal richness; a latent ...
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... writing and on its significance to the history of civilization, but in the main studies have been restricted to narrow fields or to broad generalizations. Becker16 has stated that the art of writing 29 EMPIRE AND COMMUNICATIONS.
... writing and on its significance to the history of civilization, but in the main studies have been restricted to narrow fields or to broad generalizations. Becker16 has stated that the art of writing 29 EMPIRE AND COMMUNICATIONS.
Inhalt
9 | |
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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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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
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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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