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Who Was Walter Ong, and Why Is His Thought Important Today?

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Havelock, Eric A. Preface to Plato. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of HarvardUniversity Press, 1963. A classic study of the Homeric oral mentality.

Havelock, Eric A. The Greek Concept of Justice: From Its Shadow in Homer to Its Substance in Plato. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: HarvardUniversity Press, 1978.

Havelock, Eric A. The Literate Revolution in Greece and Its Cultural Consequences. Princeton, New Jersey: PrincetonUniversity Press, 1982.

Jay, Martin. Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1993.

Koerner, Joseph Leo. The Reformation of the Image. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Levin, David Michael, ed. Modernity and the Hegemony of Vision. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1993.

Levin, David Michael. The Philosopher's Gaze: Modernity in the Shadows of Enlightenment. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1999.

Lonergan, Bernard. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, 5th ed., edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. Volume 3 of Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 1992. A classic. Lonergan mocks the tendency to equate knowing with "taking a good look." In Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue and elsewhere, Walter J. Ong refers to this tendency as visualism and hypervisualism.

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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
 

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