G. K. CHESTERTON: A PRACTICAL MYSTIC

Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Manitoba in 1933 and 1934, and he also earned a bachelor's degree from Cambridge University in 1936. The following...

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Published in:Dalhousie review 2020-03, Vol.100 (1-2), p.53
Main Author: Mcluhan, Marshall
Format: Article
Language:English
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Essays
McLuhan, Herbert Marshall
Religious conversion
Writing
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Summary:Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Manitoba in 1933 and 1934, and he also earned a bachelor's degree from Cambridge University in 1936. The following essay was published in the January 1936 issue, while he was studying at Cambridge, and it attracted the attention of Father Gerald Phelan, president of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, who wrote a series of letters to McLuhan that led to his conversion to Catholicism in March 1937. Chesterton's work inspired not only his conversion but also his analogical method of thinking and his aphoristic style of writing, and this essay was later included in the collection Marshall McLuhan Unbound (2005).
ISSN:0011-5827