Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan[a] CC (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory.[7][8][9][10] He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the United States and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained for the rest of his life. He is known as the "father of media studies".[11]
Marshall McLuhan
December 31, 1980 (aged 69)
6, including Eric
- Thomas Aquinas
- Aristotle
- Francis Bacon
- Hilaire Belloc
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Bonaventure
- E. A. Bott[1]
- Bertram Brooker[1]
- Richard Maurice Bucke[1]
- Edmund Snow Carpenter[1]
- G. K. Chesterton
- Marcel Duchamp
- Jacques Ellul
- Reginald Fessenden[1]
- John Murray Gibbon[1]
- Étienne Gilson
- Eric A. Havelock
- Harold Innis
- James Joyce
- F. R. Leavis
- Wyndham Lewis
- Thomas Nashe
- I. A. Richards
- Hans Selye[2]
Philosophy
- Media
- mass media
- sensorium
- New Criticism
- Jean Baudrillard
- Norbert Bolz
- John Cage[4]
- Douglas Coupland
- Merce Cunningham[5]
- Jacques Derrida
- Mark Fisher
- Dick Higgins[1]
- Abbie Hoffman
- Hugh Kenner[6]
- Jacques Languirand[1]
- Timothy Leary
- Paul Levinson
- Terence McKenna
- Ann Nocenti
- Walter J. Ong
- Neil Postman
- B. W. Powe
- Douglas Rushkoff
- Gerd Stern[1]
- Nelson Thall
- William Irwin Thompson
- Wired
McLuhan coined the expression "the medium is the message"[12] in the first chapter in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man[13] and the term global village. He predicted the World Wide Web almost 30 years before it was invented.[14] He was a fixture in media discourse in the late 1960s, though his influence began to wane in the early 1970s.[15] In the years following his death, he continued to be a controversial figure in academic circles.[16] However, with the arrival of the Internet and the World Wide Web, interest was renewed in his work and perspectives.[17][18][19]
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