(1) Frontiers in American Catholicism: Essays [By Ong] on Ideology and Culture (New York: Macmillan, 1957);
(2) Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958);
(3) Ramus and Talon Inventory: [A Briefly Annotated Listing of Volumes by Ramus, Talon, and Others] (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958);
(4) American Catholic Crossroads: Religious-Secular Encounters in the Modern World: [Essays by Ong] (New York: Macmillan, 1959).
Ong characterized his mature thought from the early 1950s onward as phenomenological and personalist in cast.
For an account of Ong's phenomenological mature thought, see my lengthy OEN article "Walter J. Ong's Philosophical Thought" (dated September 20, 2020):
Now, Harvard's alcoholic atheist Perry Miller (1905-1963) served as the director of Ong's massively researched doctoral dissertation.
When Ong was based in Paris researching his doctoral dissertation on Ramus and his followers and his critics, Ong published his review-article "The Mechanical Bride: Christen the Folklore of Industrial Man" to the journal Social Order (Saint Louis University), volume 2, number 2 (February 1952): pages 79-85. It is about Marshall McLuhan's first book The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man (New York: Vanguard Press, 1951), which is the only book by McLuhan that Menand discusses in his new book (pages 443 and 460).
The Canadian convert to Catholicism Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980; Ph.D. in English, Cambridge University, 1943) taught English at Saint Louis University from 1937 to 1944, during which time he continued to work on his doctoral dissertation on the history of the verbal arts of grammar, rhetoric, and logic (also known as dialectic) down to the English Renaissance write Thomas Nashe (1557-1601) - roughly contemporary with Shakespeare (1564-1616).
When Ong was working on his graduate studies in philosophy as part of his Jesuit training at Saint Louis University, he also completed a Master's degree in English, with McLuhan serving as the director of his thesis. It was McLuhan who had called Ong's attention to Perry Miller's discussion of Ramus and Ramist logic in his book The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939).
Years later, Ong dedicated his 1958 book Ramus and Talon Inventory, mentioned above, to his former teacher and lifelong friend: "For/ Herbert Marshall McLuhan/ who started all this." When McLuhan read Ong's other 1958 book, mentioned above, it prompted him to write his book The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962), which Ong also reviewed.
After McLuhan's death, Ong published "McLuhan as Teacher: The Future Is a Thing of the Past" in the Journal of Communication, volume 31, number 3 (Summer 1981): pages 129-135. It is reprinted in volume one of Ong's Faith and Contexts, edited by Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992a, pages 11-18).
In the 1960s, Ong published five further books:
(1) Darwin's Vision and Christian Perspectives: [Essays by Diverse Hands] (New York: Macmillan, 1960);
(2) The Barbarian Within: And Other Fugitive Essays and Studies [By Ong] (New York: Macmillan, 1962);
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