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The Presence of the Word:

Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History
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Yale University Press, Jan 1, 1967 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 378 pages
Terry Lectures. A religious philosopher's exploration of the nature and history of the word argues that the word is initially and always sound, that it cannot be reduced to any other category, and that sound is essentially an event manifesting power and personal presence. His analysis of the development of verbal expression, from oral sources through the transfer to the visual world and to contemporary means of electronic communication, shows that the predicament of the human word is the predicament of man himself.

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The single review on Amazon.com is titled "Please make sure your trays are in the upright and locked..."… …and I must concur, this book is a portent, a wondrous ride, into an examination of orality ... Read full review

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JSTOR: The Past in French History.
472 Book Reviews The Past in French History. By Roben Gildea. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv+418. $40.00. ...
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POLITICAL CULTURE, POLITICAL CLASS, AND POLITICAL COMMUNITY
The past in French history. By Robert Gildea. New Haven and London: Yale ... The past in French history takes a series of themes which are then explored ...
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Automatic download [Begin manual download]. Downloading the PDF version of: European History Quarterly mcphee 25 (3): 464. (163K) ...
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Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity - Questia Online ...
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www.questia.com/ PM.qst?a=o& se=gglsc& d=5000263674

FC 1331: France since 1789
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MEMORIALIZING SAINT-QUENTIN: MONUMENTS, INAUGURATIONS AND HISTORY ...
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Post-War Politics and the Historiography of French Strategy and ...
‘the past in French history’by Robert Gildea,the seminal study of the ‘Vichy. Syndrome’by Henry Rousso and the important works on the historiography ...
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The Past in French History - Gildea, Robert - Yale University Press
The Past in French History - Gildea, Robert - Yale University Press ... The Past in French History. Robert Gildea. REVIEWS, CONTENTS, EXCERPTS, INDEX ...
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Casey Harison - The Paris Commune of 1871, the Russian Revolution ...
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About the author (1967)

Walter J. Ong, S.J. (1912 2003), was University Professor of Humanities at Saint Louis University, where he taught for thirty-six years. His books include Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness, Interfaces of the WordStudies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture, and Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture, all from Cornell; Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word; The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History; and Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason.

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TitleThe Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History
The Terry lectures
AuthorWalter J. Ong
PublisherYale University Press, 1967
ISBN0300099738, 9780300099737
Length378 pages
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