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Ong, Walter Jackson was born on November 30, 1912 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Walter Jackson Ong Senior and Blanche Eugenia Mense.
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This collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution. By studying the history of rhetoric and related arts from classical antiquity through the age of romanticism to the modern period, Ong both illuminates the past and helps explain late-twentieth-century modes of expression. Elegantly written and wide ranging, Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology traces the evolution of devices used to store, retrieve, and communicate knowledge. Ong discusses diverse topics including memory as art, associationist critical theory, the close relationship between romanticism and technology, and the popular culture of the 1970s. This book also contains essays about Tudor writings in English on rhetoric and literary theory, the study of Latin as a Renaissance puberty rite, Ramism in the classroom and in commerce, Jonathan Swift's notion of the mind, and John Stuart Mill's politics.
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What accounts for the popularity of the macho image, the fanaticism of sports enthusiasts, and the perennial appeal of Don Quixote's ineffectual struggles? In Fighting for Life, Walter J. Ong addresses these and related questions, offering insight into the role of competition in human existence. Focusing on the ways in which human life is affected by contest, Ong argues that the male agonistic drive finds an outlet in games as divergent as football and chess. Demonstrating the importance of contest in biological evolution and in the growth of consciousness out of the unconscious, Ong also shows how adversary procedure has affected social, linguistic, and intellectual history. He discusses shifting patterns of contest in such arenas as spectator sports, politics, business, academia, and religion. Human beings' internalization of agonistic drives, he concludes, can foster the deeper discovery of the self and of distinctively human freedom.
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General Manley Hopkins was not alone among Victorians in his attention to the human self and to the particularities of things in the world around him, where he savoured the ‘selving or ‘inscape’ of each individual existent. But the intensity of his interest in the self, as a focus of exuberant joy as well as sometimes of anguish, both in his poetry and his prose, marks him out as unique even among his contemporaries. In these studies Professor Ong explores some previously unexamined reasons for Hopkins’ uniqueness, including unsuspected connections between nineteenth-century sensibility and certain substructures of Christian belief. Hopkins was less interested in self-discovery or self-concept than in what might be called the confrontational or obtrusive self – the ‘I,’ ultimately nameless, that each person wakes up to in the morning to find simply there, directly or indirectly present in every moment of consciousness. Hopkins’ concern with the self grew out of a nineteenth-century sensibility which was to give birth to modernity and postmodernity, and which in his case as a Jesuit was especially nourished by the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola, concerned at root with the self, free choice, and free self-giving. It was also nourished by the Christian belief in the Three Persons in One God, central to Hopkins’ theology courses and personal speculation, and very notable in the Special Exercises. Hopkins appropriated and intensified his Christian beliefs with new nineteenth-century awareness: he writes of the ‘selving’ in God of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Hopkins’ pastoral work, particularly in the confessional, dealing directly with other selves in terms of their free decisions, also gave further force to his preoccupation with the self and freedom. ‘What I do,’ he writes, ‘is me.’ Besides being concerned with the self, the most particular of particulars and the paradigm of all sense of ‘presence,’ the Spiritual Exercises in many ways attend to other particularities with an insistence that has drawn lengthy and rather impassioned commentary from the postmodern literary theorist Roland Barthes. Hopkins’ distinctive and often precocious attention to the self and freedom puts him theologically far ahead of many of his fellow Catholics and other fellow Victorians, and gives him his permanent relevance to the modern and postmodern world.
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What accounts for the continued popularity of the macho image, the fanaticism of sports enthusiasts, the perennial appeal of Don Quixote's ineffectual struggles? Walter J. Ong addresses these and related questions as he offers new insights into the complex ways in which human life is affected by contest. Ong argues that the struggle for dominance, which he feels is crucial among higher animal species, is more immediately critical for males than for females, helping males to manage persistent insecurity and to establish sexual identity. The male agonistic drive finds an outlet in contests as diverse as football, cockfighting, and chess-the last, the ultimate intellectualization of formalized territorial combat. Demonstrating the importance of contest in biological evolution and in the growth of consciousness out of the unconscious, Ong shows how adversarial today's shifting patterns of contest in such arenas as spectator sports, politics, business, religion, academe, and the history of rhetoric. Human internalization of agonistic drives, he concludes, can foster the deeper discovery of the self and of distinctively human freedom.
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'Professor Ong has managed to synthesize an incredible amount of thought and at the same time has carried some of his earlier ideas still further. Orality and Literacy should become a classic. It is eminently assignable for undergraduate courses' - Professor John Ahern 'No comparable work on this important subject exists. Thanks to the lucidity of its style and presentation of complex thought, this is a work that will be accessible and useful...it will be the standard introduction to this topic for some years to come' - Choice 'Professor Walter Ong's new book explores some of the profound changes in our thought processes, personality and social structures which are the result, at various stages of our history, of the development of speech, writing and print. And he projects his analysis further into the age of mass electronic communications media...the cumulative impact of the book is dazzling. Read this book. Literature will never be the same again. And neither will you' - Robert Giddings, Tribune 'This admirably lucid book...has obvious implications for philosophy, literature, linguistics, sociology, psychology, education, and Biblical studies...I believe this is the best book Ong has published' - Thomas J. Farrell, Cross Currents
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The deed of gift declares that “the object of this foundation is not the promotion of scientific investigation and discovery, but rather the assimilation and interpretation of that which has been or shall be hereafter discovered, and its application to human welfare, especially by the building of the truths of science and philosophy into the structure of a broadened and purified religion. The founder believes that such a religion will greatly stimulate intelligent effort for the improvement of human conditions and the advancement of the race in strength and excellence of character. To this end it is desired that a series of lectures given by men eminent in their respective departments, on ethics, the history of civilization and religion, biblical research, all sciences and branches of knowledge which have an important bearing on the subject, all the great laws of nature, especially of evolution ... also such interpretations of literature and sociology as are in accord with the spirit of this foundation, to the end that the Christian spirit may be nurtured in the fullest light of the world’s knowledge and that mankind may be helped to attain its highest possible welfare and happiness upon this earth.” The present work constitutes the thirty-fourth volume published on this foundation. A Global Academic Publishing Book
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Ong, Walter Jackson was born on November 30, 1912 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Walter Jackson Ong Senior and Blanche Eugenia Mense.
Bachelor, Rockhurst College. Master of Arts in English, St. Louis University, 1948. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), St. Louis University, 1984.
Doctor of Philosophy in English, Harvard University, 1955. Doctor (honorary), University Glasgow, Scotland.
Newspaper, commercial positions until, 1935;
instructor English and French, Regis College, Denver, 1941-1943;
assistant English, St. Saint Louis University, 1944-1947;
instructor, St. Saint Louis University, 1953-1954;
assistant professor, St. Saint Louis University, 1954-1957;
associate professor, St. Saint Louis University, 1957-1959;
professor, since 1959;
professor humanities in psychiatry School Medicine, since 1970;
University professor humanities, since 1981;
professor emeritus, since 1984. Member Fulbright national selection committee, France, 1957-1958, chairman, 1958. Regional associate American Council Learned Socs., 1957-1966.
Member White House Task Force on Education, 1966-1967, National Council on Humanities, 1968-1974, vice chairman,1971-1974. Co-chairman advising committee on science, technical and human values National Endowment for Humanities, 1974-1978. Member Rockefeller Foundation Commision on Humanities, 1978-1980.
Visiting professor University of California, 1960. Terry lecturer, Yale, 1963-1964. Visiting lecturer U. Poitiers, 1962.
Berg Professor of English New York University, 1966-1967. McDonald lecturer McGill University, 1967-1968. Willett visiting professor humanities University of Chicago, 1968-1969.
National Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, 1969-1970. Lincoln lecturer Central and WestAfrica, 1973-1974. Messenger lecturer Cornell Univercity, 1979-1980.
Alexander lecturer U. Toronto, 1981. Visiting professor comparative literature Washington University, 1983-1984. Wolfson College lecturer University of Oxford, 1985.
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Member of advisory board John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1962-1984. Trustee National Humanities Faculty, 1968-1976, chairman, 1974-1976. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Member American Association of University Professors, Modern Language Association (president 1978), Renaissance Society American (advisory county 1957-1959), Modern Humanities Research Association, National Council Teachers English, Cambridge Bibliographical Society (England), Catholic Commission Intellectual and Cultural Affairs (Executive Committee 1962-1963), Milton Society of America (president 1967), Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Nu.