Empire and CommunicationsIt'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 influenced the development of consciousness and societies. In this foundational work, 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. With a new introduction by Alexander John Watson, author of Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Innis, and a new foreword by series editor Andrew Calabrese, this previously hard-to-obtain book is now readily available again. All communication scholars should have this classic book on their shelves, and it also serves as a great supplementary text in communication and economics courses. |
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Page 131
... Christians an enormous advantage over other religions . Christianity began as a ferment within Judaism and a protest against the increasing rigidity of the theocracy following the gap between Hebrew as a sacred lan- guage and Aramaic as ...
... Christians an enormous advantage over other religions . Christianity began as a ferment within Judaism and a protest against the increasing rigidity of the theocracy following the gap between Hebrew as a sacred lan- guage and Aramaic as ...
Page 132
... Christianity was crystallized in books which became sacred . The break with Judaism compelled reliance on an effective appeal to Gentiles of other religions with important results for Christianity . " " It is the irony of every reli ...
... Christianity was crystallized in books which became sacred . The break with Judaism compelled reliance on an effective appeal to Gentiles of other religions with important results for Christianity . " " It is the irony of every reli ...
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... Christianity became a syncretist religion . " The Christian religion is a synthesis and only those who have dim eyes can assert that the intellectual empires of Babylonia and Persia have fallen " ( Cheyne ) . " " The triumph of the ...
... Christianity became a syncretist religion . " The Christian religion is a synthesis and only those who have dim eyes can assert that the intellectual empires of Babylonia and Persia have fallen " ( Cheyne ) . " " The triumph of the ...
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