Communications and History: Theories of Media, Knowledge, and Civilization

by Paul Heyer

This innovative volume selectively assesses three centuries of inquiry into the role of communications in the history of civilization. It challenges the conventional assumption that inquiry into the human consequences of living in a communications-dominated age began in the middle of the twentieth century as a response to omnipresent technology. Beginning with the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, Heyer shows how scholars as well known as Rousseau...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313261571
• ISBN13: 9780313261572
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"