Farrell, Thomas2022-09-022022-09-022022-09This version was not previously published.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/241471See the above abstract.In my 1,650-word review essay "James Collins' 'Louis Lavelle on Human Participation' (1947), and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I highlight, on the one hand, the work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter Jackson Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955), and, on the other hand, the work of the American Catholic philosopher James Daniel Collins (1917-1985; Ph.D. in philosophy, Catholic University of America, 1944). In Ong's massively researched 1958 book Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue (Harvard University Press), which Collins reviewed, Ong works with the aural-to-visual shift in Western cultural history. Ong based his account of the aural-to-visual shift of the French Christian existentialist philosopher Louis Lavelle's 1942 book. In 1947, Collins published his article "Louis Lavelle on Human Participation."enLouis Lavelle, James Collins, Walter J. Ong, Pope Francis, Thomas J. FarrellScholarly Text or Essay