Platons Phaidros-Passage und McLuhans Medientheorie

• Authors: Hans W. Giessen

Title variants

PL

Platon’s Phaidros text passage and the media theory of Marshall McLuhans

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

This article tries to deliver an interpretation of Platon’s Phaidros text passage in regard of McLuhan’s distinction between ‘cool’ and ‘hot’ media, thus contributing to render more precisely Platon’s theoretical analysis and to explain why Platon’s assumption is regularily quoted but nevertheless had largely no results and effects.

Keywords

EN

Platon; McLuhan; media theory

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Germanica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 138
• Pages: 153 - 161

Contributors

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Hans W. Giessen

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