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Walter Ong was born on November 30, 1912, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Walter Ong
Walter Ong
9301 State Line Rd, Kansas City, MO 64114, United States
Walter Ong studied at Rockhurst High School.
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Walter Ong studied at Rockhurst College. He got a Bachelor of Arts.
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Walter Ong studied at Saint Louis University. He got a Master of Arts.
Cambridge, MA, United States
Walter Ong studied at Harvard University. He got a Doctor of Philosophy.
(Renaissance logician, philosopher, humanist, and teacher,...)
Renaissance logician, philosopher, humanist, and teacher, Peter Ramus is best known for his attack on Aristotelian logic, his radical pedagogical theories, and his new interpretation for the canon of rhetoric. His work, published in Latin and translated into many languages, has influenced the study of Renaissance literature, rhetoric, education, logic, and, more recently, media studies.
https://www.amazon.com/Ramus-Method-Decay-Dialogue-Discourse/dp/0226629767
1958
(This collection of essays by Walter Ong focuses on the co...)
This collection of essays by Walter Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution.
https://www.amazon.com/Rhetoric-Romance-Technology-Interaction-Expression/dp/0801478472
1971
(Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, linguistics, phen...)
Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, linguistics, phenomenological analysis, cultural anthropology, media studies, and intellectual history, Walter Ong offers a reasoned and sophisticated view of human consciousness different in many respects from that of structuralism.
https://www.amazon.com/Interfaces-Word-Studies-Evolution-Consciousness/dp/0801492408
1977
(Analyzes the differences in consciousness between oral an...)
Analyzes the differences in consciousness between oral and literate societies and points out the intellectual, literary, and social effects of writing.
https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Orality-Literacy-Technologizing-Word-Accents/dp/041671370X/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
1982
(In these studies, Professor Ong explores some previously ...)
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.
https://www.amazon.com/Hopkins-Self-God-Heritage-Walter/dp/0802074138
1986
(It collects 13 writings of the distinguished Jesuit schol...)
It collects 13 writings of the distinguished Jesuit scholar on topics ranging from Ong's 1947 study of Wit and mystery: a reevaluation in medieval Latin hymnody to 1996 reflections on faith and cosmos and information-communication interactions.
https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Contexts-Selected-Studies-1952-1991/dp/1555407668
1992
(This collection puts together the writings of Walter Ong,...)
This collection puts together the writings of Walter Ong, a scholar who has offered his own observations about voice, orality, speech, literacy, communication, and culture.
https://www.amazon.com/Ong-Reader-Challanges-Further-Communication/dp/1572734450
2002
Walter Ong was born on November 30, 1912, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Walter Ong graduated from Rockhurst High School in 1929. He studied Latin at Rockhurst College, where he graduated in 1933 with a Bachelor of Arts. Then he earned a Master of Arts in English in 1941 and the degrees Licentiate of Philosophy and Licentiate of Sacred Theology from Saint Louis University. Finally, in 1955, Ong received a Doctor of Philosophy in English from Harvard University.
Ordained a priest in 1946, Walter Ong spent his career in academia, although he considered himself a priest rather than an educator. He joined the faculty at Saint Louis University in 1953 and remained there throughout his career, retiring as professor emeritus in 1984.
Moreover, Walter Ong was a writer. Among his books are In the Human Grain: Further Explorations of Contemporary Culture, Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture, Hopkins, the Self, and God, and An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry.
Walter Ong is best known as an educator and writer. He taught at Saint Louis University for more than thirty years and rose to the position of professor emeritus. As the author or editor of almost a dozen books, he received the most acclaim for his 1982 work, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the World. Besides, in 1963, the French government dubbing Ong a knight, Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes académiques, for his work on Ramus. He also was made a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1971.
(Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, linguistics, phen...)
1977(It collects 13 writings of the distinguished Jesuit schol...)
1992(In these studies, Professor Ong explores some previously ...)
1986(Renaissance logician, philosopher, humanist, and teacher,...)
1958(This collection puts together the writings of Walter Ong,...)
2002(Analyzes the differences in consciousness between oral an...)
1982(This collection of essays by Walter Ong focuses on the co...)
1971Walter Ong's mentor, Marshall McLuhan, influenced his interest in the history of language, so his research and writings also can be seen as an extension of McLuhan's work. He studied the differences in pre-literate and literate societies, the impacts of computerization, mass electronic media, and the Internet on people's language education.
Ong founded that societies exercising an oral tradition valued their elders as a link to their past. They experienced stronger communal bonds, while in a literate society, a community's members become more individualistic and isolated from the originators of written texts. The invention of the Internet led to the boundaries between interior thought and external reality, which became more indistinct.
Quotations: "Without writing, the literate mind would not and could not think as it does, not only when engaged in writing but normally even when it is composing its thoughts in oral form. More than any other, single invention writing has transformed human consciousness."