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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 WALTER ONG'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO CULTURAL STUDIES: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE WORD AND I-THOU COMMUNICATION (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2000; 2nd ed. 2009, forthcoming). The first edition won the 2001 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology conferred by the Media Ecology Association. For further information about his education and his publications, see his UMD homepage: Click here to visit Dr. Farrell's homepage.
On September 10 and 22, 2009, he discussed Walter Ong's work on the blog radio talk show "Ethics Talk" that is hosted by Hope May in philosophy at Central Michigan University. Each hour-long show has been archived and is available for people who missed the live broadcast to listen to. Here are the website addresses for the two archived shows:
Click here to listen the Technologizing of the Word Interview
Click here to listen the Ramus, Method & The Decay of Dialogue Interview
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Sunday, March 6, 2022Amy-Jill Levine on Jesus's Parables (REVIEW ESSAY) The self-described "Yankee Jewish feminist" biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine of the Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee, explicates key parables of the genius Jewish teacher/preacher Jesus in her deeply learned and accessible book Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi (New York: Harper One/ Harper Collins, 2014).
Thursday, March 3, 2022Have You Read James Joyce's Novel Ulysses? (REVIEW ESSAY) The centenary of the 1922 publication of the Irish novelist James Joyce's experimental novel Ulysses is upon us. To commemorate the occasion of its publication, I thought I'd set forth here a few guides for any OEN readers who may undertake to read it for the first time.
Monday, February 28, 2022Anthony M. Annett on Cathonomics (REVIEW ESSAY) What a valuable ally Pope Francis now has in Anthony M. Annett (Ph.D. in macroeconomics and political economy, Columbia University)! In his accessible new 2022 book Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy (Georgetown University Press), Annett examines Catholic social teaching, gleaning ten principles (pp. 42-63) and then expounding ten practical global macroeconomic solutions (pp. 283-284).
Friday, February 25, 2022The McLuhans on Formal Cause (REVIEW ESSAY) The Canadian Renaissance specialist and media theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980; Ph.D. in English, Cambridge University, 1943) converted to Catholicism in 1937, when the church favored Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy. As a Thomist, McLuhan learned about Aristotle's four causes. McLuhan was most intrigued with formal cause, and so was his eldest son Eric McLuhan (1942-2018; Ph.D. in English, University of Dallas, 1982).
Thursday, February 24, 2022Andrew Tallon on Karl Rahner (REVIEW ESSAY) The prolific German Jesuit philosopher and theologian Karl Rahner (1904-1984) was one of the most important Roman Catholic theologians in the twentieth century. However, here I focus on his 1941 philosophical book Hearer of the Word: Laying the Foundation for a Philosophy of Religion (New York: Continuum Publishing, 1994). More specifically, here I discuss Andrew Tallon's helpful "Editor's Introduction" (pp. ix-xxii).
Wednesday, February 16, 2022Beatrice Bruteau (1979) on Marshall McLuhan (1964) (REVIEW ESSAY) The late American philosopher and Catholic convert Beatrice Brutreau (1930-2014; Ph.D. in philosophy, Fordham University, 1954) perceptively discusses the late Canadian media theorist and Catholic convert Marshall McLuhan's 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (McGraw-Hill) in her 1979 book The Psychic Grid: How We Create the World We Know (Quest Books/ Theosophical Publishing House). I here highlight her book.
Wednesday, February 2, 2022Lowercase catholicity as hermeneutic tool for Catholic theology? (REVIEW ESSAY) The American Franciscan friar Daniel P. Horan's book Catholicity and Emerging Personhood: A Contemporary Theological Anthropology (Orbis Books, 2019) explores the hermeneutic of catholicity for contemporary Roman Catholic theological anthropology. It is a lively and thought-provoking book, which I will highlight here.
Sunday, January 30, 2022John Fraim on Marshall McLuhan's Sense of Religious Faith (REVIEW ESSAY) John Fraim, who holds a B.A. from the University of California - Los Angeles and a J.D. from Loyola Law School, ably reviewed Marshall McLuhan's posthumously published 1999 book The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion, edited by Eric McLuhan [Marshall and Corinne'McLuhan's eldest son] and Jacek Szklarek [a Roman Catholic priest] (Toronto and New York: Stoddart Publishing) in the new online journal New Explorations.
Tuesday, January 25, 2022Right vs. Left Culture Warriors in the U.S. (REVIEW ESSAY) The Argentine Jesuit priest Jorge Mario Bergoglio (born in 1936), who became Pope Francis in March 2013, wrote the 1991 essay "Some Reflections on the Subject of Corruption." I want to add some of my reflections to his on the general subject of the corruption (in his terminology) of both the right and the left culture warriors in the United States today.
Saturday, January 22, 2022Austen Ivereigh on Pope Francis and Dialogue (REVIEW ESSAY) The British journalist Dr. Austen Ivereigh (born in 1966) has published two biographies of the Argentine Jesuit Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936; elected pope in March 2013). Pope Francis has repeatedly urged dialogue. But Dr. Ivereigh has recently explored the Argentine Jesuit Father Bergoglio's 1991 essay "Some Reflections on the Subject of Corruption" to indicate when dialogue is not called for.
Wednesday, January 19, 2022Graham Majin on Marshall McLuhan (REVIEW ESSAY) The young conservative British journalist Graham Majin has no interest in the philosophical background of Marshall McLuhan's cagey thought. Majin makes this abundantly clear in his superficial hatchet job on McLuhan titled "Bitter Fruit: Marshall McLuhan and the Rise of Fake News" in the conservative online outlet Quillette (dated Jan. 18, 2022). But I am interested in the philosophical background of McLuhan's thought.
Friday, January 14, 2022Is America Falling Apart at the Seams? (REVIEW ESSAY) The self-described conservative columnist David Brooks has published "America Is Falling Apart at the Seams" in the New York Times (dated January 13, 2022). He paints an alarming picture of American society today. To help improve American society today, conservative American Catholics should take Pope Francis' call for Catholics to become a field hospital church to heart.
Sunday, January 9, 2022Joseph F. Conwell, S.J., on Walking in the Spirit (REVIEW ESSAY) The late American Jesuit spiritual director Joseph F. Conwell (1919-2014) has written a perceptive book for our reflection about the early Jesuit Jeronimo Nadal (1491-1556) and St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) titled Walking in the Spirit: A Reflection on Jeronimo Nadal's Phrase "Contemplative Likewise in Action" (St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2003). Our reflection should include Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope.
Wednesday, January 5, 2022Massimo Borghesi's New Book Catholic Discordance (REVIEW ESSAY) The Italian philosophy Professor Massimo Borghesis (born in 1955), the author of the 2018 intellectual biography of Pope Francis, has just published the new book Catholic Discordance: Neoconservatism vs. the Field Hospital Church of Pope Francis, translated by Barry Hudock (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press Academic, 2021). Borghesi centers his attention on three American Catholic neoconservatives.
Saturday, January 1, 2022Joseph F. Conwell, S.J., on Jesuit Renewal (REVIEW ESSAY) The subject of my length meditative review essay is the American Jesuit spiritual director Joseph F. Conwell's admirably accessible and deeply learned 1997 book Impelling Spirit (Chicago: Jesuit Way/ Loyola Press). It is about Jesuit personal and group religious renewal. However, it may help all Christians advance their own personal religious renewal.
Sunday, December 19, 2021Michael Ignatieff's New Book On Consolation (REVIEW ESSAY) The prolific Canadian author Michael Ignatieff's new 2021 book On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times (New York: Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt) is a timely collection of well-written portraits of certain persons, arranged in historical order.
Monday, December 13, 2021Rabbi Dennis S. Ross on Martin Buber (REVIEW ESSAY) Rabbi Dennis S. Ross (born in 1953) has just published an admirably accessible book about the life and thought of Martin Buber (1878-1965) titled A Year with Martin Buber: Wisdom on the Weekly Torah Portion (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society; Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021).
Wednesday, December 8, 2021Robert Kanigel on Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord (REVIEW ESSAY) The combined efforts of the Harvard classicist Milman Parry (1902-1935) and his student Albert B. Lord (1912-1991) launched a thousand studies of oral traditions, "touch[ing] on more than one hundred ancient, medieval, and modern traditions," according to John Miles Foley (1947-2012). Robert Kanigel provides a dual biography of Parry and Lord in his new book Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry.
Thursday, December 2, 2021John McWhorter on Third Wave Antiracism (REVIEW ESSAY) Columbia University's prolific multilingual linguist John Hamilton McWhorter V (born in 1965; Ph.D. in linguistics, Stanford University, 1993), who is black, has published the new 215-page book Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America (New York: Portfolio, 2021). In it, Dr. McWhorter operationally defines and explains what he refers to as Third Wave Antiracism, an ideology that functions as a new religion.
Saturday, November 27, 2021Robert N. Bellah on Religion in Big History (REVIEW ESSAY) Berkeley's distinguished sociologist of religion Robert N. Bellah (1927-2013; Ph.D. in sociology and Far Eastern Languages, Harvard University, 1955) had the leisure to research and write his admirably lucid magnum opus, Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011). The axial age includes ancient Israel, ancient Greece, ancient China, and ancient India.
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