Alexander John Watson

Marginal Man

The Dark Vision of Harold Innis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an extraordinary work of scholarship in its own right, as well as an essential companion to the work of its subject, one of Canada’s most important minds.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 953g
• ISBN-13: 9780802039163
• ISBN-10: 0802039162
• Artikelnr.: 43552480

Autorenporträt

Alexander John Watson is a senior fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Innisian Puzzle
Part One: From the Margin, 1894–1939
1. The ‘Herald’ of Otterville, 1894–1913
2. The Great War, 1914–1918
3. One of the Veterans, 1919–1923
4. The Search for a New Paradigm, 1920–1929
5. The Great Betrayal, 1930–1940
Part Two: To the Margin, 1940–1952
1. Hunting the Snark
2. A Telegram to Australia: Innis’s Working Methods
3. Innis and the Classicists: Imperial Balance and Social-Science Objectivity
4. Time, Space, and the Oral Tradition: Towards a Theory of Consciousness
5. At the Edge of the Precipice: The Mechanization of the Vernacular and
Cultural Collapse
6. Cassandra’s Curse
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index