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Klappentext McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed is a close reading of all of his work with a focus on tracing the systematic development of his thought. The overriding objective is to clarify all of McLuhans thinking, to consolidate it in a fashion which prevents mi Zusammenfassung Focusing on McLuhan's work, this title traces the systematic development of his thought. It intends to clarify McLuhan's thinking, to consolidate it in a fashion which prevents misreadings, and to open the way to advancing his own program: ensuring that the world does not sleepwalk into the twenty-first century with nineteenth-century perceptions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1) Introduction: Background, Context, Definitions, and...Stumbling Blocks2) Literary Links: G. K.Chesterton, Ezra Pound & T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Thomas Nashe3) From Madison, Wisconsin to Madison Avenue:The Mechanical Bride and her Electrical Brood4) From Media as Political Forms to Understanding Media 5) McLuhan's Tool Box: From Through the Vanishing Point to Laws of Media 6) Using Mcluhn's Tools7) Further Readings8) Notes9) References
