Tom Cooper's 2025 Book Wisdom Weavers: The Lives and Thought of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, and Walter J. Ong's Thought

Abstract

In mt 2,600-word review essay "Tom Cooper's 2025 Book Wisdom Weavers: The Lives and Thought of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, and the Thought of Walter J. Ong," I succinctly highlight Tom Cooper's ambitious and admirably accessible new 2025 book Wisdom Weavers -- which is the revised and updated version of cooper's 1979 doctoral thesis at the University of Toronto, where both Innis and McLuhan taught for years. Innis and McLuhan are the co-founders of the so-called Toronto School of Media Ecology within the field of communication studies. At times, certain people also consider the American Jesuit Renaissance scholar and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter Jackson Ong, Jr. (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) of Saint Louis University to be an adjunct member of the Toronto School of Media Ecology. In any event, in my 2,600-word review essay, I also succinctly highlight Ong's pertinent thought.