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Gordon, W. Terrence

 
9780465005499: Marshall Mcluhan: Escape Into Understanding: The Authorized Biography
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ISBN 10 : 0465005497 ISBN 13 : 9780465005499
Editeur : Basic Books, 1997

Synopsis

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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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. In the 1960s McLuhan blazed the intellectual territory which we are only coming to grips with today. This couldn't 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 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. McLuhan's 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 McLuhan's extensive personal and public writings journal 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 publications to bring us an authoritative, well-rounded, and passionate portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.Written in the best tradition of intellectual biography, Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding will infect readers with the vitality of McLuhan's 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.

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0465005497
ISBN 13 
9780465005499
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
480
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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