Eric A. Havelock

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Eric A. Havelock (born June 3, 1903 in London , † April 4, 1988 ) was a Canadian classical philologist and media theorist .

Life

Havelock graduated from Cambridge with an MA in classical philology in 1929 and became a professor at Yale University in 1963 , where he remained until his retirement in 1971.

In 1953, Havelock was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

plant

Eric A. Havelock is assigned to the so-called " Canadian media theory " in the tradition of Harold A. Innis and Marshall McLuhan .

With Preface to Plato (1963), Havelock wrote an early historical genealogy of the phonetic alphabet, which fundamentally changed the view of Greek culture from the perspective of communication history .

In his second major work, The Muse Learns to Write (1986), he took up the approaches from the preface again and developed the studies of the Greek writing revolution further.

His work influenced, among other things, the research of Walter J. Ong on orality and literacy .

Publications

  • 1986: The Muse Learns to Write . New Haven and London: Yale University Press (German edition: When the muse learned to write . Frankfurt am Main 1992)
  • 1982: The Literate Revolution in Greece and its Cultural Consequences . Princeton: Princeton University Press
  • 1978: The Alphabetization of Homer. Communication Arts in the Ancient World . New York: Hastings House (co-editor with P. Hershbell)
  • 1963: Preface To Plato. A History of the Greek Mind . Cambridge and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press ( English language review )

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1950-1999 ( [1] ). Retrieved September 23, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Havelock, Eric A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Havelock, Eric Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian classical philologist and media theorist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1988