Transmitting Culture - European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

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Transmitting Culture

Transmitting Culture - European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

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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 media. In a departure, Regis Debray redefines communication as the inescapable conditioning of civilization's meanings and messages by their technologies of transmission and lays the groundwork for a science of the transmission of cultural forms - in a word, mediology."Transmitting Culture" examines the difference between communication and transmission and argues that ideas and their legacies should be rethought not in terms of "communication" from sender to receiver but of "mediation" by the vectors and messengers of meaning. "Transmitting Culture" stresses the technologies and institutions long overlooked by philosophy and the human sciences in the study of symbols and signs throughout the history of civilizations. Ranging widely from the history of religion and the printing press to the French and industrial revolutions, from the role and place of authority to scientific inquiry, "Transmitting Culture" establishes a new approach to the cultural history of communication.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780231113458
ISBN10 0231113455
Number Of Pages 224
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Columbia University Press
Format paperback
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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. -- Keith Reader Modern & Contemporary France

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Author's Bio

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; Charles de Gaulle: Futurist of the Nation; Against Venice; Revolution in the Revolution?; and Teachers, Writers, Celebrities: The Intellectuals of Modern France. His political memoir, Blessed Be Our Gods, is forthcoming.

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