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Unthinking Modernity : Innis, Mcluhan, and the Frankfurt School.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995Copyright date: ©1995Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773565012
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Unthinking ModernityLOC classification:
  • B804 -- .S68 1995eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Space, Sound, and Negative Dialectics -- 2 The Frankfurt School, Adorno, and Benjamin -- 3 Innis's Formative Years and a Negative Political Economy -- 4 Innis: Communications and the Negative Dialogue -- 5 McLuhan's Early Years and Philosophical Framework -- 6 From Visual Society to No Point of View -- 7 Theorists in Dialogue: Parallel Tracks? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: In Unthinking Modernity Judith Stamps reinterprets the communications theory of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan as a Canadian variant of the critical theory associated with the early Frankfurt school. Stamps argues that Innis and McLuhan used their studies of media to develop a critique of the thoughts and habits that characterize the West.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Space, Sound, and Negative Dialectics -- 2 The Frankfurt School, Adorno, and Benjamin -- 3 Innis's Formative Years and a Negative Political Economy -- 4 Innis: Communications and the Negative Dialogue -- 5 McLuhan's Early Years and Philosophical Framework -- 6 From Visual Society to No Point of View -- 7 Theorists in Dialogue: Parallel Tracks? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

In Unthinking Modernity Judith Stamps reinterprets the communications theory of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan as a Canadian variant of the critical theory associated with the early Frankfurt school. Stamps argues that Innis and McLuhan used their studies of media to develop a critique of the thoughts and habits that characterize the West.

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