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Adopting the currently unfashionable theory that Western culture has improved over time, Perkinson argues that media of communication have played a pivotal role in helping to make things better. He shows how human speech, when it first emerged, enabled people both to understand better the world they inhabited and to construct political, economic, and social arrangements that improved their life chances. With the invention of writing in Sumer, and especially following the invention of the phonetic alphabet in Greece, people were able to devise even better understandings and improved arrangements. The invention of the printing press in the late 15th century led to the creation of the modern nation state, capitalism, an open society, and modern science.
According to this novel interpretation, media of communication encode the existing culture, thereby enabling people to become critical of it in ways not possible before. This criticism uncovers inadequacies, which, when eliminated, result in an improved culture. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of the history of communications and Western civilization.
Adopting the currently unfashionable theory that Western culture has improved over time, Perkinson argues that media of communication have played a pivotal role in helping to make things better. He shows how human speech, when it first emerged, enabled people both to understand better the world they inhabited and to construct political, economic, and social arrangements that improved their life chances. With the invention of writing in Sumer, and especially following the invention of the phonetic alphabet in Greece, people were able to devise even better understandings and improved arrangements. The invention of the printing press in the late 15th century led to the creation of the modern nation state, capitalism, an open society, and modern science.
According to this novel interpretation, media of communication encode the existing culture, thereby enabling people to become critical of it in ways not possible before. This criticism uncovers inadequacies, which, when eliminated, result in an improved culture. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of the history of communications and Western civilization.
Introduction
How Speech Made Things Better
Writing and the Origins of Civilization
Proto-Writing
Alphabetic Writing
Printing and the Origins of Rational Civilization
Printing and the Open Society
Printing and Modern Science
Printing and the Modern State
Printing and Capitalism
Conclusion
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 1995 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe |
| Rubrik: | Sprachwissenschaft |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | Gebunden |
| ISBN-13: | 9780897894319 |
| ISBN-10: | 0897894316 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: |
Perkinson, Henry J.
Parkinson, Henry J. |
| Hersteller: | Praeger |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 240 x 161 x 15 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Henry J. Perkinson (u. a.) |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 25.04.1995 |
| Gewicht: | 0,455 kg |
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