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Homo videns : televisione e post-pensiero
Published in Unknown Binding by Laterza ()
Author: Giovanni Sartori
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Good for a High School debate course
Sartori can throw out seductive ideas about the advent of television in contemporary culture. I have to admit he is a lucid and thought provoking author. The best part of the book (Part 2) is what he really is good at: politics. He talks about poll culture in today's "TVcracy". The rest of the book makes a point but an unsubstaintiated one. He talks about TV an New media debilitating the mind and producing a society full of Homo Insipiens, that is people carved out of shallowness. I would have to agree that most people aren't getting any smarter these days but to say that TV stupidizes peolple is a lot to say and if you do say so you have to back it up. Sartori doesn't. His essay is one affirmation after another without substance. His basic premise is that we have not been made Homo Sapiens by way of the image but by way of the word. That is enough for him to say that TV is going to degrade society. The book is worth it. If you are intrested in this debate Sartori gets right at it. What is best about the book is that it is easily read and easy to disagree with. It is a good book for High School debate courses.

Homo Videns The Teledirected Society
Giovanni Sartori is an expert of the use of televisiĆ³n and media in the political debate, this book is a must for any Television or Video Producer The analysis about the real value of "images" against concepts is needed to better understand the importance of Television and Multimedia technologies


The Theory of Democracy Revisited
Published in Hardcover by Chatham House Publishers (1987)
Author: Giovanni Sartori
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Good historical revision on the democracy path
The book shows, between the lines, the fragility of the discussions and analysis on social and political issues. There are too many theories and points of view on themes such as democracy, State, civil and political societies. You can argue anything you want using anything you want: I mean, you can describe the State using the arguments of Plato, Hegel, Marx, Stuart Mill... and you will have different interpretations and images of the same thing. It's not science... there are no natural laws (like a newtonian law)! There are too many variables. Sartori tries to join Idealism and Reality... but the result is kind of empty. The book finishes too suddenly. I can't identify a real contribution for the theme from Sartori, but his analysis on the historical revisions of the steps of democracy over the centuries pays the book. Anyone interested on political "science" (what a paradox!)should read this one. You can build any sort of State or society... all you need is a point of view.


Comparative Constitutional Engineering: An Inquiry into Structures, Incentives and Outcomes
Published in Paperback by New York University Press (1995)
Author: Giovanni Sartori
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Democratic Theory
Published in Hardcover by Greenwood Publishing Group (1973)
Author: Giovanni Sartori
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Democrazia : cosa è
Published in Unknown Binding by Rizzoli ()
Author: Giovanni Sartori
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Elementos de La Teoria Politica
Published in Paperback by Alianza (1992)
Author: Giovanni Sartori
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Eurocommunism: the Italian Case
Published in Textbook Binding by AEI Press (1978)
Authors: Ranney Austin and Giovanni Sartori
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Homo Videns - La Sociedad Teledirigida
Published in Paperback by Taurus (1998)
Author: Giovanni Sartori
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Ingenieria Constitucional Comparada
Published in Paperback by Fondo de Cultura Economica USA (1996)
Author: Giovanni Sartori
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La Comparacion En Las Ciencias Sociales
Published in Paperback by Alianza (2000)
Author: Giovanni Sartori
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