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Forward through the rearview mirror : reflections on and by Marshall McLuhan

Title: Forward through the rearview mirror : reflections on and by Marshall McLuhan / edited by Paul Benedetti and Nancy DeHart.
Publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Description

207 pages : illustrations (some color); 21 x 26 cm.

Summary

Hailed by Tom Wolfe as "the most important thinker since Newton, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, and Pavlov," sixties media theorist Marshall McLuhan was the first person to grasp the full and radical implications of mass media for contemporary life.
Forward Through the Rearview Mirror is a multidimensional, unconventional look at McLuhan's life and ideas in the context of the information age. An evocative, imaginative, and visually exciting mosaic of aphorisms and images, Forward Through the Rearview Mirror presents McLuhan's own words - short prose, aphorisms, interviews, letters, and dialogues - alongside reminiscences about him by today's most renowned cultural critics.
Part book, part magazine, part storyboard, Forward Through the Rearview Mirror is a provocative, insightful, and unprecedented exploration of McLuhan, his message, and its meaning.

Series Statement

MIT Press digital communication series

Uniform Title

Digital communication.

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With commentaries by Tom Cooper, Eric McLuhan, Derrick de Kerckhove, John Fraser, Robert Fulford, Liss Jeffrey, Lewis Lapham, Philip Marchand, Neil Postman, Camille Paglia, Louis Rossetto, Patrick Watson, and Frank Zingrone.
Also published in 1996 by Prentice Hall Canada, Scarborough, Ont.

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ISBN

0262522330

LCCN

96078072

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries