Farrell, Thomas2022-04-122022-04-122022-04This version was not previously published.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/226917See the above abstract.In my 3,000-word review essay "Fran O'Rourke's 2022 Book Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas," I highlight the Irish philosopher and singer Fran O'Rourke's new massively learned and massively researched and admirably lucid 2022 book about the Irish writer and singer James Joyce and Western philosophy. I discuss his account of Western philosophy in the larger conceptual framework of media ecology theory as developed by the Canadian Renaissance specialist and media ecology theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980; Ph.D. in English, Cambridge University, 1943) and by the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955).enJames Joyce, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Fran O'Rourke, Marshall McLuhan, Walter J. OngScholarly Text or Essay