McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed
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McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed by W Terrence Gordon
Focusing on McLuhan's work, this title traces the systematic development of his thought. It intends to clarify McLuhan's thinking, to consolidate it in a fashion which prevents misreadings, and to open the way to advancing his own program: ensuring that the world does not sleepwalk into the twenty-first century with nineteenth-century perceptions.
For anyone who is serious about understanding the origins of contemporary media theory, one must understand the origins of the original media theorist, Marshall McLuhanGordon's new book provides a unique insight into what made McLuhan think, and think in the way that took the world of the 1960s and subsequent by maelstrom. -- Mark Federman, Researcher at OISE, University of Toronto, and Former Chief Strategist, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto
Marshall McLuhan (1911-80) was a complex and sometimes confusing thinker. He certainly deserves a ‘guide for the perplexed', and W. Terrence Gordon attempts to provide one.—Journal of Media and Cultural Politics
Marshall McLuhan (1911-80) was a complex and sometimes confusing thinker. He certainly deserves a ‘guide for the perplexed', and W. Terrence Gordon attempts to provide one.—Journal of Media and Cultural Politics
W. Terrence Gordon is Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and Part-time lecturer in Linguistics at St. Mary's University, Halifax. He is the author of the three titles on McLuhan and the editor of the critical editions of his Understanding Media (2003), McLuhanUnbound (2005), and The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of his Time (2006). His McLuhan for Beginners brought him the invitation from the McLuhan family to write his biography: Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding, critically acclaimed in The New York Times and many other sources. Professor Gordon is also the librettist of a multimedia opera about McLuhan. His Everyman's Joyce is scheduled for release this month.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781441143808 |
| ISBN 10 | 1441143807 |
| Title | McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed |
| Author | W Terrence Gordon |
| Series | Guides For The Perplexed |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2010-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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