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Walter J. Ong

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Gender Male
Death20 years ago
Date of birth November 30,1912
Zodiac sign Sagittarius
Born Kansas City
Missouri
United States
Date of died August 12,2003
DiedSt. Louis
Missouri
United States
Academic advisor Marshall McLuhan
Job Writer
Philosopher
Education Harvard University
Rockhurst High School
Rockhurst University
Saint Louis University
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Orality and literacy
The presence of the word
Interfaces of the Word
Rhetoric, romance, and technology
Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue
Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness
Hopkins, the Self, and God
The barbarian within
An Ong reader
American Catholic crossroads
Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization
Orality and Literacy: 30th Anniversary Edition
Darwin's vision and Christian perspectives
Faith and Contexts: Further essays, 1952-1990
Faith and Contexts: Selected Essays and Studies 1952-1991
Why Talk? A Conversation about Language with Walter J. Ong
Ramus and Talon Inventory: A Short-title Inventory of the Published Works of Peter Ramus (1515-1572) and of Omer Talon (ca. 1510-1562) in Their Original and in Their Variously Altered Forms. With Related Materal: 1. The Ramist Controversies: a Descriptive Catalogue. 2. Agricola Check List: a Short-title Inventory of Some Printed Editions and Printed Compendia of Rudolph Agricola's Dialectical Invention (De Inventione Dialectica)
Faith and Contexts: Additional studies and essays, 1947-1996
Of Ong and Media Ecology: Essays in Communication, Composition and Literary Studies
Faith and Contexts: Supplementary studies, 1946-1989, with references and index for volumes one and two
Italy and Its Monarchy
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Walter Jackson Ong SJ was an American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian and philosopher. His major interest was in exploring how the transition from orality to literacy influenced culture and changed human consciousness.

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