Global village, the: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century

Auteur :
McLuhan, Marshall / Powers, Bruce R.
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780195054446
Date de publication :
17 août 1989
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
449 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
The premise for this book is the distinction between what the authors call "visual space", which is the left-brain, linear, quantitative reasoning tradition of the West, beginning with Plato and Aristotle, as against "acoustic space", which is equated to the holistic approach of the East.