Walter J. Ong

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Walter J. Ong

Walter Jackson Ong , SJ (born November 30, 1912 in Kansas City , Missouri , † August 12, 2003 in St. Louis , Missouri) was an American clergyman ( Catholic ), literary scholar and media theorist .

Life

Ong studied literature ( Latin ) and received his bachelor's degree from Rockhurst College in 1933 and his master's degree in 1941 from the Jesuit-run Saint Louis University in St. Louis , Missouri . He later graduated in philosophy and theology. In 1935 he joined the Society of Jesus ( Jesuits ), in 1946 he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest.

He received his doctorate in literary studies (via Petrus Ramus ) from Harvard University in 1955 and taught English and French literature and later psychology at Saint Louis University from 1959 .

Ong has been one of the most prominent intellectuals in the United States since the 1950s . In 1971 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

plant

Ong's main work on media theory is Orality and Literacy from 1982; His central thesis here is that the invention of writing not only provided humans with a technical aid, but that the entry into writing has fundamentally and sustainably restructured human ways of thinking - and the associated cultural and social patterns.

Individual evidence

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Publications

  • 1982: Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the word . New York ( English-language review ; German edition. Orality and Literacy. The Technologization of the Word , Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1987, ISBN 3-531-11768-8 )
  • 1967: The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History (Yale University, ISBN 0-300-09973-8 )
  • 1958: Ramus, method and the decay of dialogue: From the art of discourse to the art of reason . Cambridge
  • 1957: Frontiers in American Catholicism . new York

See also

literature

Secondary literature on Walter J. Ong:

  • W. Raible: Orality and Literacy . In: H. Günther and O. Ludwig (eds.): Writing and writing: An interdisciplinary handbook of international research . Berlin 1994

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personal data
SURNAME Ong, Walter J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ong, Walter Jackson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American clergyman (Catholic), literary scholar and media theorist
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2003
Place of death St. Louis , Missouri