Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding : A Biography
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (777 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465005497 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 465 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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In the 1960s, McLuhan blazed the intellectual territory which we are only coming to grips with today. W. The originator of such widely used phrases as "the global village" and "the medium is the message, " Marshall McLuhan - the prescient media guru - is finally attracting the critical attention he deserves. Terrence Gordon traces McLuhan's 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. This is the first book to mine McLuhan's extensive personal and public writings - journal entries; correspondence with family and luminaries such as Ezra Pound, Wyndham Le
. Gordon provides a straightforward and lucid account of McLuhan's life and ideas, at times defending the media guru against detractors. From Library Journal In contrast to Phillip Machand's Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger (LJ 3/15/89), this authorized life draws heavily on McLuhan's diaries and private papers as well as on interviews with family and friends. Lib., CUNYCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. All facts and explanations notwithstanding, McLuhan remains an enigma. Early on, Gordon takes a traditional biogra
"I Was Tempted To Escape Into Sleep Far Too Often" according to First Things First. I purchased this book because I was interested in learning as much as I could about the enigmatic Marshall McLuhan. Unfortunately, Mr. McLuhan has failed to find his ideal biographer in this work. Marshall McLuhan was the media intellectual from Canada who wrote, taught and spoke presciently of the effects of media on ourselves and our culture. Much of his work was rather heady stuff, and out of the reach of the di. Fine intellectual biography Howard Wetzel Mr. Gordon concentrates on Mcluhan's intellectual development and shows McL.'s work as a single work in progress built on a unique foundation. It is not as merely gossipy as Marchand's biography, and not for the reader unfamiliar with the world of ideas McL. dealt with. There is nothing of the pop celebrity here, but a serious presentation of the intellectual ground under all of McLuhan's work.. "Best biography of McLuhan" according to Michael Tang. The definite work on McLuhan to date revisting the aphrorism "the medium is the message," which most pundits still don't understand. Interesting tidbits not found elsewhere, such as McLuhan being a speed reading advocate and practioner, which helped him get through his junk mail. I'm not sure the why of the title, "Escape into Understanding," other than it has something to do with "Understanding Media."M. Tang