Category Archives: McLuhan’s Catholicism

Between gods and their times

McLuhan and Aristotle 5 (dualisms in 1944)

McLuhan and Aristotle 4 (Synthesis between Plato and Aristotle?)

Reborn from ruin

McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 5)

McLuhan and Kenner (Dublin’s Joyce, chap 3)

WSCM 4: Tom Easterbrook

Plenary consciousness 2

Eliot’s bread

Connubium of Being 1

East & west, horizontal & vertical

Jordan Peterson and Marshall McLuhan

Point and circumference in 1939

Nihilism stands at the door

Comments on Elder’s comments on Barilli

Pugen’s time

From world to worlds

McNamee and Ong remember McLuhan

R.C. Williams’ Assessment of McLuhan

McLuhan and Father R.C. Williams

How communicate the presupposition to communication?

McKeon, Gilson and Rorty

McKeon’s 1935 Trivium essay 1 (what is philosophy?)

Eisenstein 2 (Zavattini)

Bacon in McLuhan 8 (Induction = Metaphor)

Bacon in McLuhan 7 (Lewis 2)

Lodge in W.O. Mitchell’s Who Has Seen the Wind

On the “necessary conjoint” of Platonists and Aristotelians

John Lindberg

Vatican Council as politics and business

The incomprehensible mechanism

The family predicament

Effect before cause in Gilson

Echoes of Joyce

The very citadel of civilized awareness

Henry Carr

Writing and the Alphabet in Innis and McLuhan

McLuhan and the “ceaseless quest for the inclusive image”

On Lewis and Technology 1944

The Comparative Method of Rupert Lodge

McLuhan’s realism 9: Where Chesterton Comes In

McLuhan’s realism 5: Cambridge 1934-1935

McLuhan’s realism 4: Meredith and “mystical materialism”

McLuhan’s realism 2: “the real things, exactly as they are”

McLuhan’s realism 1: St Louis 1940

Encountering Maritain in 1934

McLuhan and Father Gerald Phelan 1934-1936

The question of unity

Pre-Christian Logos

Relativity in Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters

Analogy of proper proportionality

Einstein

What is coherence?

From vision to ‘vision’

Relativity and topology

Elsie McLuhan on the Mastery of Life

“The main question” in Dostoevsky

Deutsch on Christian complementarity

Jackson Knight on “the main question”

Eliot’s ‘From Poe to Valéry’

Richards and Havelock before 1947

Hopkins: peace allows the death of it

Richards and McLuhan – The Windhover

“Pouring [out] is also fulfillment, not emptying but filling”

Autobiography – remembering St Louis 1937-1944

Autobiography – encountering Maritain

Sense and senselessness 1 — Some sense?

Subjective and objective genitive 2

McLuhan and Plato 1: strange prisoners like ourselves

McLuhan and Plato 5 – Peter Pan

Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters 3 – On the existence of knowledge

Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters – Introduction

Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters 2: What Mallarmé saw

Mallarmé: “a competition for the foundation of the popular modern Poem”

Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters 1

The Waters of Intelligibility – Mis-taking McLuhan

The Waters of Intelligibility

The ancient bond of guest-host-enemy

On “things most common”