Article: Walter J. Ong on Historical and Other Humanistic Studies (REVIEW ESSAY) - The American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) died in 2003. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of his death, I highlight his life and times here. Then I highlight his account of historical and other humanistic studies.
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Article: Walter Ong (1912-2003) on Peter Ramus (1515-1572) (REVIEW ESSAY) - My favorite scholar is the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955). With the financial assistance of two Guggenheim Fellowships, he undertook a massive doctoral dissertation on the French Renaissance logician and educational reformer and Protestant martyr Peter Ramus (1515-1572) which I examine.
Article: Walter Ong (1912-2003) on Peter Ramus (1515-1572) (REVIEW ESSAY) - My favorite scholar is the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955). With the financial assistance of two Guggenheim Fellowships, he undertook a massive doctoral dissertation on the French Renaissance logician and educational reformer and Protestant martyr Peter Ramus (1515-1572) which I examine.
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