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Transmitting Culture
Régis Debray
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Description for Transmitting Culture
Paperback. An examination of the difference between communication and transmission that stresses technologies and institutions long overlooked in the study of symbols and signs throughout the history of civilizations. Translator(s): Rauth, Eric. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
How do we explain the fact that certain ideas, at certain moments in time, can have earthshaking effects? Or that some cultures have left an indelible mark while others have not? Why did Jesus, rather than Mani the Mesopotamian or the Eastern god Mithra, take hold among masses of people? Why did Karl Marx instead of Pierre Proudhon or Auguste Comte leave his mark on the century? Behind these questions lies the matter of the human need to conserve, hand down, and transmit cultural meanings - the study of the means of transmission and of the long evolutionary history of ... Read more
How do we explain the fact that certain ideas, at certain moments in time, can have earthshaking effects? Or that some cultures have left an indelible mark while others have not? Why did Jesus, rather than Mani the Mesopotamian or the Eastern god Mithra, take hold among masses of people? Why did Karl Marx instead of Pierre Proudhon or Auguste Comte leave his mark on the century? Behind these questions lies the matter of the human need to conserve, hand down, and transmit cultural meanings - the study of the means of transmission and of the long evolutionary history of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231113458
SKU
V9780231113458
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About Régis Debray
Regis Debray is professor of philosophy in the Faculte de Lettres at the Universite de Lyon III. Founder and editor of Les Cahiers de mediologie, former aide to president Francois Mitterand, erstwhile associate of Che Guevara, and captive cause celebre in Bolivia (1967-1970), he is the author of numerous books, including Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms; ... Read more
Reviews for Transmitting Culture
Regis Debray's work on mediology has made him one of the most significant figures on the French intellectual scene in the past two decades, and this work is an important contribution to and distillation of this work.
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