Research Catalog

Title

Transmitting culture / Régis Debray ; translated by Eric Rauth.

Author

Debray, Régis.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Description

ix, 157 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

European perspectives

Uniform Title

• Transmettre. English
• European perspectives.

Alternative Title

Transmettre.

Subjects

• Social values
• Knowledge, Sociology of
• Culture diffusion
• Socialization

Note

• Translation of: Transmettre.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-148) and index.

ISBN

0231113447 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

99087716

OCLC

• 43095850
• ocm43095850
• SCSB-3837585

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries