McLuhan's New Sciences
(Cameron McEwen)
McLuhan and Plato 1 – Phaedrus and Er
from a letter of McLuhan's, age 23, on T.S. Eliot:
the poems I am reading have the unmistakable character of greatness. They transform, and diffuse and recoalesce the commonest every day occurrences of 20th century city life till one begins to see double indeed — the extremely unthinkable character, the glory and the horror of the reality in life (yet, to all save the seer, behind life) is miraculously suggested.
Seeing double here being identified as a common theme of Plato and McLuhan.
