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
- ↑ http://www.uni-essen.de/literaturwissenschaft-aktiv/Vorlesungen/ausblick/ong.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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
- Media genealogy and media theory
- Marshall McLuhan
- Eric A. Havelock
- Jack Goody and Ian Watt
- Harold A. Innis
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
Web links
- The Life and Scholarship of Walter J. Ong - Saint Louis University
- Literature by and about Walter J. Ong in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Walter J. Ong in the bibliographic database WorldCat
personal data | |
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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 |