Category Archives: Plato

McLuhan and Aristotle 3 (the Stagirite as dialectician)

McLuhan and Aristotle 2 (Maritain’s Introduction)

McLuhan and Aristotle 1 (first encounters)

McLuhan’s contributions

McLuhan and Kenner (the plotline of Dublin’s Joyce)

Euclid and effect

McLuhan and Plato 14: “nothing exists in itself”

The representative ferment

McLuhan and Plato 13: epyllion

McLuhan and Plato 12 — Cratylus

Inclusive consciousness

Thoth: “the third ends the discord of the two”

McLuhan and Plato 8½ – Gigantomachia in the Symposium

Tis optophone which ontophanes

Innis on the eclipse of truth (PEMS 4)

Easterbrook on Innis and McLuhan in 1960

Peterson: time or times?

Yeats on the emotion of multitude

McLuhan’s “flush-profile” review of Frye

McLuhan at the crossroads

“Understanding is not a point of view”

Shaw & the hurdles of communication

Eisenstein 2 (Zavattini)

Beyond the cultural monad

Lewis in McLuhan 3 (‘Nihilism Exposed’)

Bacon in McLuhan 5 (‘Francis Bacon, Ancient or Modern?’)

The essential plurality of the forms of being

Gigantomachia, triangular duel, siamese triplets

Heine on ‘Plato’ and ‘Aristotle’

Wakese 2: McLuhan on the “potencies” of language

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

Déjà vu

Effects before causes

Effect before cause in Gilson

McLuhan’s realism 5: Cambridge 1934-1935

McLuhan’s realism 1: St Louis 1940

Havelock and the question of ‘water’

“The formula of Virgil’s poetic chemistry”

McLuhan and Plato 15: Poe’s Maelstrom and the Phaedo

Innis, McLuhan and “the “power of metamorphosis”

The Toronto school and 3 Plato books

Reuel Denney

What nobody knows

On the frontier everybody is a nobody

Theuth in Plato’s Philebus

Parry and Lord in McLuhan

Pre-Christian Logos

Havelock, Innis and Richards in 1947

McLuhan’s Topic #3 – Richards and ontology

McLuhan and Plato 1: strange prisoners like ourselves

McLuhan and Plato 11- on the perception of the child (obj gen)

McLuhan and Plato 10 – on the child and the child’s perception

McLuhan and Plato 9 – on the plain of oblivion

McLuhan and Plato 8 – Gigantomachia

McLuhan and Plato 7 – “a poise between”

McLuhan and Plato 6 – Theuth

McLuhan and Plato 5 – Peter Pan

McLuhan and Plato 4 – Narcissus

McLuhan and Plato 3 – the wild horses of passion

McLuhan and Plato 2 – When is myth?