This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures and offers a brilliantly lucid account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.

This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures and offers a brilliantly lucid account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.

沃尔特·翁（Walter J．Ong．1912-2003），生前任美国圣路易斯大学教授．传播学媒介环境学派第二代核心人物。他以研究中世纪人文学者彼得·拉米斯（Peter Ramus）和口语文化著称。他提出了口语文化一书面文化的两极性概念，首创原生口语文化和次生口语文化的分野，界定了原生口语文化的九大特征。 他的主要著作包括《拉米斯、方法和对话的式微》（Ramus，Method，and the Decay of Dialogue,1958）、《语词的在场》（The Presence of the Word，1967）、《口语文化与书面文化》（1982）等。 何道宽，深圳大学英语及传播学教授，政府津贴专家，曾任中国跨文化交际研究会副会长，现任中国传播学会副理事长、深圳市翻译协会高级顾问，从事文化学、人类学、传播学研究20余年，著译约800万字。著作有《中...(展开全部)

Walter J. Ong’s classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought. This thirtieth anniversary edition – coinciding with Ong’s centenary year – reproduces his best-known and most influential book in full and brings it up to date...(展开全部)

This is an examination of how many people could read and write in the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans. Harris traces the partial transition to written culture, demonstrating continued reliance on oral communication. He explores the role of literacy as an instrument of power, indispensable to builders of empires, and as a political weapon for the minority who could read a...(展开全部)

A distinguished moral philosopher and a leading interpreter of Kant's ethics, Barbara Herman draws on Kant to address timeless issues in ethical theory as well as ones arising from current moral problems, such as obligations to distant need, the history of slavery as it bears on affirmative action, and the moral costs of reparative justice. Challenging various Kantian orthodo...(展开全部)

Who speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the “device”—core ideas of modern literary theory—were all pioneered in the shadow of oral literature. Authorless, loosely dated, and variable, oral texts have always posed a challenge to critical interpretation. When it began to be thought that culturally significant texts—starting with Homer and...(展开全部)

Who speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the “device”—core ideas of modern literary theory—were all pioneered in the shadow of oral literature. Authorless, loosely dated, and variable, oral texts have always posed a challenge to critical interpretation. When it began to be thought that culturally significant texts—starting with Homer and...(展开全部)