The Print Media in Modernity The purpose of this research is t

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between print and modernity in the context of Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment society. The plan of the research will be to set forth an elaboration of modern culture relative to the conception of the economic sphere, to the strengthening of capitalism and industrialization, and to the shift in religious praxis to the private rather than public realm of experience, all vis-a-vis the post-Enlightenment tendency away from theocratic points of departure and toward a programmatically secularist world view. The cultural context thus established, the research will discuss the interplay between print media in modernity, which is to say the influence of print, including the nexus of print and a typology of information, on the culture of secularist modernity, and the influence of modernity on the development of print.

A connection between any medium of communication and any world view may be clarified by analogy or syllogism. The difference between the experience of the world before and after the Enlightenment, as mediated by print, is something like the difference in that experience before and after the discovery of fire. The medium produces some manifest or intended consequences, and other latent or unintended ones, and in either case the consequences may range from good to bad to somewhere in between. What is undeniable, however, is that certain consequences were irrevocable, and that is a difference between t

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precedent and social record--served the needs of those literate enough to use it. Knowledge could be transmitted in ways that allowed the knowledgeable to improve their advantages. The rediscovery of ancient history and the inevitable contemporary printed commentary increased the ability of literate cultures not only to interpret history but also to construct that interpretation in the service of a palpable national or cultural consciousness or ideology. Such a consciousness can "imagine" a culture as it once was or as it should be (ignoring the fact that the culture never was what it was). Nationalism itself, aided and abetted by the authority and permanence of the ideas represented in the printed word, would have both manifest and latent functions, some good and some bad. The positive effects of nationalism would be an increase in the sense of affiliation and community identity. But precisely that same sense, carried to extremes, would encourage chauvinism and a corollary imperialism. The power of the printed would, widely disseminated and of concrete manifestation, support that tendency to the degree what was written shaped the received wisdom of the culture, and in turn the collective memory. These factors are in the backgro

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