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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006. Provides the first in-depth intellectural biography of Harold Adams Innis (1894-1952), the great Canadian economic historian and communications visionary.
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WithMarginal Man, Alexander John Watson provides the first in-depth intellectual biography of Harold Adams Innis (1894-1952), the great Canadian economic historian and communications guru. Melding biography and analysis, Watson presents, in unprecedented detail, the links between key events in Innis' life and scholarly influences, and the intellectual synthesis that Innis produced.
Watson illustrates and reconciles the great thinker's movement from rural Ontario to the centre of Canadian and international scholarship, followed by his relegation to the margin by scholars who did not understand his political project and the essential consistency of his scholarship and vision. Based on exhaustive research including interviews and reviews of archival sources, the book's methodology reflects that of Innis himself, emphasizing oral tradition and 'dirt' research.
Innis' thought is remarkably relevant to today's world, and Marginal Man discusses his foresight with regards to technological changes - such as the arrival of the internet - as well as historical changes including the end of the Cold War and the beginnings of today's unipolar world order. This book is an extraordinary work of scholarship in its own right, as well as an essential companion to the work of its subject, one of Canada's most important minds.
Works by Harold A. Innis
History of the Fur Trade in Canada
The Bias of Communication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Innisian Puzzle
Part One: From the Margin, 1894-1939
The 'Herald' of Otterville, 1894-1913
The Great War, 1914-1918
One of the Veterans, 1919-1923
The Search for a New Paradigm, 1920-1929
The Great Betrayal, 1930-1940
Part Two: To the Margin, 1940-1952
Hunting the Snark
A Telegram to Australia: Innis's Working Methods
Innis and the Classicists: Imperial Balance and Social-Science Objectivity
Time, Space, and the Oral Tradition: Towards a Theory of Consciousness
At the Edge of the Precipice: The Mechanization of the Vernacular and Cultural Collapse
Cassandra's Curse
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index