Herbert Marshall McLuhan was born on July 21, 1911 in Edmonton,
Alberta, the son of Elsie Naomi (née Hall) and Herbert Ernest McLuhan.
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He was a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual. His mother was a Baptist school teacher who later became an actress; his father was a Methodist and had a real estate business in Edmonton.
At Manitoba, McLuhan explored his conflicted relationship with religion and turned to literature to "gratify his soul's hunger for truth and beauty," later referring to this stage as agnosticism.
McLuhan met Corinne Lewis (1912–2008) in St. Louis, a teacher and aspiring actress from Fort Worth, Texas, and they were married on August 4, 1939.
They spent 1939–40 in Cambridge, where he completed his master's degree (awarded in January 1940) and began to work on his doctoral dissertation on Thomas Nashe and the verbal arts.
McLuhan was named to the Albert Schweitzer Chair in Humanities at Fordham University in the Bronx for one year (1967–68)
He was educated at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge; he began his teaching career as a Professor of English at several universities in the U.S. and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto, where he remained for the rest of his life.
Marshall McLuhan is known for coining the expression "the medium is the message" and the term global village, and for predicting the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented
In 1970, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. In 1975, the University of Dallas hosted him from April to May, appointing him to the McDermott Chair.
He never fully recovered from the stroke and died in his sleep on December 31, 1980.
He was a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual. His mother was a Baptist school teacher who later became an actress; his father was a Methodist and had a real estate business in Edmonton.
At Manitoba, McLuhan explored his conflicted relationship with religion and turned to literature to "gratify his soul's hunger for truth and beauty," later referring to this stage as agnosticism.
McLuhan met Corinne Lewis (1912–2008) in St. Louis, a teacher and aspiring actress from Fort Worth, Texas, and they were married on August 4, 1939.
They spent 1939–40 in Cambridge, where he completed his master's degree (awarded in January 1940) and began to work on his doctoral dissertation on Thomas Nashe and the verbal arts.
McLuhan was named to the Albert Schweitzer Chair in Humanities at Fordham University in the Bronx for one year (1967–68)
He was educated at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge; he began his teaching career as a Professor of English at several universities in the U.S. and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto, where he remained for the rest of his life.
Marshall McLuhan is known for coining the expression "the medium is the message" and the term global village, and for predicting the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented
In 1970, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. In 1975, the University of Dallas hosted him from April to May, appointing him to the McDermott Chair.
He never fully recovered from the stroke and died in his sleep on December 31, 1980.
