Marginal Man : : The Dark Vision of Harold Innis / / Alexander John Watson.

WithMarginal Man, Alexander John Watson provides the first in-depth intellectual biography of Harold Adams Innis (1894?1952), the great Canadian economic historian and communications guru. Melding biography and analysis, Watson presents, in unprecedented detail, the links between key events in Innis...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Innisian Puzzle
  • Part One. From the Margin, 1894-1939
  • CHAPTER ONE. The 'Herald' of Otterville, 1894-1913
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Great War, 1914-1918
  • CHAPTER THREE. One of the Veterans, 1919-1923
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Search for a New Paradigm, 1920-1929
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Great Betrayal, 1930-1940
  • Part Two. To the Margin, 1940-1952
  • CHAPTER SIX. Hunting the Snark
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. A Telegram to Australia: Innis's Working Methods
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Innis and the Classicists: Imperial Balance and Social-Science Objectivity
  • CHAPTER NINE. Time, Space, and the Oral Tradition: Towards a Theory of Consciousness
  • CHAPTER TEN. At the Edge of the Precipice: The Mechanization of the Vernacular and Cultural Collapse
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. Cassandra's Curse
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index