Philosophers Zone - 16 July 2011 - The Conservative Marshall McLuhan

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Since the 1960s, McLuhan famously avoided taking what he called a ‘moralistic’ stance on the goodness or badness of electric media. But close readers of his major writings are in for a surprise. What emerges is distinctively conservative: tribalistic, stringently moralistic and opposed to the liberal, modernist, individualist age of modernity. This week, The Philosopher’s Zone investigates McLuhan the right-wing moralist.

Guests Grant Havers, Professor of Philosophy and Politics
Department of Philosophy, Trinity Western University, Canada

Further Information Grant Havers - university homepage (http://twu.ca/academics/faculty/profiles/havers-grant.html)

Article - The right-wing postmodernism of Marshall McLuhan (by Grant Havers)
(http://www.wehavephotoshop.com/PHILOSOPHY%20NOW/PHILOSOPHY/McLuhan/Marshall%20McLuhan.pdf)

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopherszone/stories/2011/3266351.htm

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