Category Archives: Biography

Parry and Lord in McLuhan

The Journey of Aeneas through the Waste Land

Encountering Maritain in 1934

McLuhan and Father Gerald Phelan 1934-1936

Innis and McLuhan in 1936

Stamps on Havelock and McLuhan

Goody on Havelock, Innis and McLuhan

Theall on Innis, Havelock and McLuhan

The question of unity

Pre-Christian Logos

Ted Carpenter on discovering ‘auditory space’

McLuhan & Williams on discovering ‘auditory space’

Relativity in Space, Time & Architecture

Space, Time & Architecture and McLuhan

Relativity in Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters

Autobiography 1956: “Huge shift in the geography of perception and feeling”

Ontology and epistemology

Analogy of proper proportionality

Giedion – an “Author’s Note”

Minkowski in Giedion

Different kinds of “acoustic space”

Einstein

Relativity in The Mechanical Bride

The mosaic in A Faculty of Interrelations

Schafer — The Tuning of the World

Sigfried Giedion — A Faculty of Interrelations

What is coherence?

From vision to ‘vision’

Hayakawa — The Revision of Vision

Relativity and topology

W.O. Mitchell on Rupert Lodge

W.O. Mitchell and the quest to “embody insight”

The put-on

“The main question” in Valéry

Henry Wright on Winnipeg in 1920

Elsie McLuhan on the Mastery of Life

McLuhan vs the Walkathon in 1931

T.S. Eliot in Winnipeg

“The main question” in Dostoevsky

Deutsch on Christian complementarity

“Deutsch’s interesting pamphlet on communication” 1

Jackson Knight on “the main question”

Eliot’s ‘From Poe to Valéry’

Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and Poe’s Maelstrom

The Road to Xanadu

Autobiography – the experience of the second conversion

Autobiography – the experience of Cambridge

Golden on Innis and Havelock

Heyer on Innis and Havelock

Carey on Innis and Havelock

McLuhan’s second conversion

A “trick of analysis” in the Maelstrom

McLuhan on Poe’s Maelstrom

Innis to McLuhan February 26, 1951

Cleanth Brooks on the Maelstrom

Richards and Havelock before 1947

Havelock on the interpretation of all epochs

Innis on the pulp and paper industry 1937

Havelock on the ‘oral-literate equation’

Havelock’s ‘Professional Technique of the Sophists’, 1940

Babe on Havelock, Innis and McLuhan

Innis to McLuhan January 12, 1952

Sirluck on Innis, Owen and Havelock

Innis and Havelock – 1930 and beyond

Havelock to McLuhan, 1970, and its background

Havelock, Innis and Richards in 1947

Explorations

Autobiography 1967

Hopkins: peace allows the death of it

Richards and McLuhan – The Windhover

Richards – the trivium, the eddy and the 2 sides of the mirror

Comparative philosophy – Masson-Oursel and Crookshank

McLuhan’s Topic #1 – “the law of writ”

Autobiography – encountering Alfred Adler

Autobiography – encountering Shakespeare

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

Autobiography – remembering St Louis 1937-1944

Autobiography – encountering Maritain

Autobiography – McLuhan’s place in Canada and in the arts

Autobiography – encountering Chesterton

Autobiography — Richards and Empson

Autobiography 1932-1934

Autobiography 1944-1946

Autobiography 1934-1936

The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 3 – Proof-reading in progress

Sense and senselessness 1 — Some sense?

Subjective and objective genitive 2

The Beginnings of Gutenberg Galaxy 2 – Carothers

McLuhan and Plato 1: strange prisoners like ourselves

Autobiography 1962

McLuhan and Plato 7 – “a poise between”

McLuhan’s biographical note for ‘An Ancient Quarrel’ 1946

McLuhan and Plato 6 – Theuth

McLuhan and Plato 5 – Peter Pan

McLuhan and Plato 1 – Phaedrus and Er

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