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  • Language as Hermeneutic

    A Primer on the Word and Digitization

    by Walter J. Ong ...
    Language in all its modes—oral, written, print, electronic—claims the central role in Walter J. Ong's acclaimed speculations on human culture. After his death, his archives were found to contain unpublished drafts of a final book manuscript that Ong envisioned as a distillation of his life's work. This first publication of Language as Hermeneutic, reconstructed from Ong's various drafts by Thomas ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Interfaces of the Word

    Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture

    by Walter J. Ong ...
    Drawing on a wide range of disciplines—linguistics, phenomenological analysis, cultural anthropology, media studies, and intellectual history—Walter J. Ong offers a reasoned and sophisticated view of human consciousness different in many respects from that of structuralism. The essays in Interfaces of the Word are grouped around the dialectically related themes of change or alienation and growth ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Orality and Literacy

    30th Anniversary Edition

    by Walter J. Ong ...
    Series series New Accents
    Walter J. Ong’s classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought.This thirtieth anniversary edition – coinciding with Ong’s centenary year – reproduces his best-known and most influential book in full and brings it up to date with two new ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fighting for Life

    Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness

    by Walter J. Ong ...
    What accounts for the popularity of the macho image, the fanaticism of sports enthusiasts, and the perennial appeal of Don Quixote's ineffectual struggles? In Fighting for Life, Walter J. Ong addresses these and related questions, offering insight into the role of competition in human existence. Focusing on the ways in which human life is affected by contest, Ong argues that the male agonistic ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology

    Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture

    by Walter J. Ong ...
    This collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution. By studying the history of rhetoric and related arts from classical antiquity through the age of romanticism to the modern period, Ong both illuminates the past and helps explain late-twentieth-century modes of expression.Elegantly written and wide ranging, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Hopkins, the Self, and God

    by Walter Ong ...
    Series series Heritage
    General Manley Hopkins was not alone among Victorians in his attention to the human self and to the particularities of things in the world around him, where he savoured the ‘selving or ‘inscape’ of each individual existent. But the intensity of his interest in the self, as a focus of exuberant joy as well as sometimes of anguish, both in his poetry and his prose, marks him out as unique even among ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Orality and Literacy

    30th Anniversary Edition

    by Walter J. Ong, John Hartley ...
    Narrated by John Guccion ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 46 min

    Walter J. Ong's classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed, and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific, and literary thought.This thirtieth anniversary edition—coinciding with Ong's centenary year—reproduces his best-known and most influential book in full and brings it up to date with two new ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Speech and Debate as Civic Education

    Edited by J. Michael Hogan, Jessica A. Kurr, Michael J. Bergmaier, Jeremy D. Johnson ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
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  • The Philosopher's Toolkit

    A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods

    by Julian Baggini, Peter S. Fosl ...
    The second edition of this popular compendium provides the necessary intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument, reading, and reflectionFeatures significantly revised, updated and expanded entries, and an entirely new section drawn from methods in the history of philosophyThis edition has a broad, pluralistic approach--appealing to readers in both ... Read more

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  • Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
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  • Philosophy

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