Marshall McLuhan : escape into understanding : a biography

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Marshall McLuhan : escape into understanding : a biography

W. Terrence Gordon

Basic Books, c1997

  • : cloth
  • : paper

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [436]-454) and index

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巻冊次

: cloth ISBN 9780465005499

内容説明

Traces the life of the "media guru," contrasts his academic life in Toronto with the glitzy world of New York media, and examines the major themes of his writings.
巻冊次

: paper ISBN 9780465044177

内容説明

Perhaps best-known for coining phrases like the medium is the message and the global village, Marshall McLuhan blazed the intellectual territory which we are only coming to grips with today. W. Terrence Gordon traces McLuhans beginnings in the prairie city of Edmonton, Alberta, through his education at Cambridge and teaching in America, to his startling breakthroughs in communication while at the University of Toronto. In Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding, Gordon evocatively portrays McLuhans central place in the ferment of the 1960s and explains the formation of his most brilliant insights into the media. This is the first book to mine the media gurus extensive personal and public writings to bring us an authoritative, well-rounded, and passionate portrait of one of the twentieth centurys greatest thinkers. The originator of such widely used phrases as the global village and the medium is the message, Marshall McLuhanthe prescient media guruis finally, attracting the critical attention he deserves. In the 1960s McLuhan blazed the intellectual territory which we are only coming to grips with today. This couldnt be a better time for a readable, full-scale treatment of his writings, a book that reflects the range and depth of his thought accurately and accessibly. Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding fills this gap. W. Terrence Gordon traces McLuhans beginnings in the prairie city of Edmonton, Alberta, through his education at Cambridge and teaching in America to his startling breakthroughs in communication while at the University of Toronto. McLuhans central place in the ferment of the 1960s is evocatively drawn and the formation of his most brilliant insights into the media are clearly explained. This is the first book to mine McLuhans extensive personal and public writingsjournal entries; correspondence with family and luminaries such as Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, Peter Drucker, and Clare Boothe Luce; manuscript notes and files; and all of his publicationsto bring us an authoritative, well-rounded, and passionate portrait of one of the twentieth centurys greatest thinkers. Written in the best tradition of intellectual biography, Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding will infect readers with the vitality of McLuhans ideas, drawing them into his mind and leaving them with an indelible image of the warm, whimsical, spiritual man whose playful conceptual explorations revolutionized the way we see the world.

目次

  • Introduction
  • Breaking Ground
  • The Fortunes of Family
  • Intellectual Seeds
  • Englands Green and Pleasant Land
  • Dagwoods America
  • A Professor in Spite of Himself
  • From California to Cambridge Ricorso
  • Breaching and Bridging
  • Duelogue
  • McLuhans Canada
  • Conversations with Congenial Minds
  • A Beachhead in Toronto
  • Four-Canadas McLuhan
  • From the Centre Out
  • The Good Ground
  • Closure
  • To the Four Corners of the Global Village
  • The Final Vortex
  • McLuhans Legacy
  • Understanding McLuhan
  • Is McLuhan a Linguist?

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