Now, the time has come for me to discuss Comor's helpful long scholarly "Introduction" in his new 2025 book (pp. xi-lvi). First, I will now provide an overview of Comor's "Introduction" by giving the subtitles he uses in it to announce the major subsections in it:
"Innis's foundational role and representations of Innis in media ecology" (boldface subheading) (pp. xiv-xxvi).
"Easterbrook's relationship with Innis" (boldface subheading) (pp. xxvi-xxxi).
"Easterbrook on Innis after Innis's death" (boldface subheading) (pp. xxxi-xxxvi).
"What Easterbrook taught in Innis 4b" (boldface subheading) (pp. xxxvi-xli-).
"(ii) November 18 - February 10" (italicized subheading) (pp. xli-xlvi).
"(iii) February 17 - March 21" (italicized subheading) (pp. xlvi-xlix).
"Course readings" (boldface subheading) (pp. xlixl).
"The contemporary significance of Easterbrook's notes and Innis's approach" (boldface subheading) (pp. li-lv).
"Notes on the presentation of Easterbrook's lectures" (boldface subheading) (p. lvi).
Now, in Comor's subsection "Innis's foundational role and representations of Innis in media ecology," he says, "John Watson, in his unparalleled biography, Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Innis [University of Toronto Press, 2006, p. 3] states that Innis's work 'represents the old testament of communications theory, which, when paired with Marshall McLuhan's new testament, forms the "Toronto School" of communications'" (p. xv).
Well, if Innis's work truly deserves the vaunted status that the Canadian Innis biographer John Watson claims that it does, then we should all be grateful to Edward A. Comor for editing W. T. Easterbrook: Harold Innis's Final Course.
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