Volume 11, Number 12 · January 2, 1969
Trompe l'oeil
By D.W. Harding
Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting
by Marshall McLuhan, by Harley Parker
Harper & Row, 267 pp., $7.50
War and Peace in the Global Village
by Marshall McLuhan, by Quentin Fiore, co-ordinated by Jerome Agel
McGraw-Hill, 192 pp., $5.95
McLuhan: Pro & Con
edited by Raymond Rosenthal
Funk & Wagnalls, 308 pp., $5.95
Sense and Nonsense of McLuhan
by Sidney Finkelstein
International Publishers, 122 pp., $1.45 (paperback) (paper)
As more and more pours out by and about McLuhan it becomes clear that, although little can now be profitably said about his work, the episode as a whole has some bearing, diagnostically on the condition of present-day intellectual life. It raises three questions. For what forms of malaise does he seem to bring relief? What is wrong with the contemporary version of rational discourse which he defies? And what has happened to education that people literate and interested enough to read his work can be so credulous or at best uncertain?
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